#61957 10-29-2007 03:45 PM | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 383 Platinum Member (300+ posts) |  Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 383 | Keith--All too familiar (but what a great twist)!!
Melissa, I agree with your comments,and I still eat slow, but bigosh I'm eating!! Funny you mention the soda with no ice and flat. I still can't handle ice at all and have probably drank a half a dozen cokes in the past year (Used to do that many in a day!!). I remember my first attempt at Taco Bell, the refried beans loved attaching themselves to the roof of my mouth, but about a gallon of water later I finished my meal (All ONE bean burrito)!! Peanut butter really has to be a trip!!
That table and those locks---WOW, what memories. I have my masks out for halloween (Yeah, two masks, thanks to the chemo/rad slim fast diet), think I'll bolt them to the trees tomorrow--LOL!!
Oh the places we will go!!!
Laugh On...... It's really great medicine!!
Steve
SCC right side BOT/FOM; DX 1-25-06; Neck dissection/25% of tongue removed 2-17-06. Stage 2 Recurrence 7-06: IMRTX35 & 3X Cisplatin ended 10-18-06. Tumor found 03/18/13; Partial Glossectomy 03/28/13 left lateral tongue. Nov. 2014; headaches,lump on left side of throat. Radical Neck Dissection 12-17-14; Tumor into nerves/jugular; Surgery successful, IMRTX30 & 7X Erbotux. Scan 06-03-15; NED! 06-02-16; Mets to left Humerus bone and lesion on lungs-here We go again! Never, Ever Give Up!
**** PASSED AWAY 10/8/16 ****
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#61958 10-30-2007 02:19 PM | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 97 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 97 | I still eat more slowly than the average person which helps me stay thin. But the days of taking over an hour to eat are long gone, thank goodness!
Drinking soda is new, for about 5 months after radiation I still couldn't handle anything carbonated. The only things I can't eat are spicy or acidic things.
I never used to eat at Taco Bell, now I go there like once or twice a week. A full meal for $2.95, who can beat that!
Age 36. Four years of fighting Stage 4 Skull Base Cancer
Can't even fit it in the signature line. I've tried it all! 5 surgeries, IMRT, cyberknife, cisplatin, erbitux, AIM, taxotere, carboplatin.
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#61959 10-30-2007 03:43 PM | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 598 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 598 | I have to jump in here -- this is just too much!!! Yep, I eat more slowly than before, but not embarassingly so any more. I can drink soda fine, and some spicy foods, but I just can't bring myself to do Taco Bell . . .
The music during radiation was a game between the techs and me. They were all about 25 years younger than me, so I kept asking for different stuff. One week the Beach Boys, the next Sinatra, etc. Drove them crazy. My favorite was when I asked for Alice Cooper . . .
If you had asked me 7 months ago when I was diagnosed if I would be laughing about radiation treatment today, I would have suggested you see a shrink . . . in a hurry! The mind is an amazing critter . . .
Jeff
SCC Right BOT Dx 3/28/2007
T2N2a M0G1,Stage IVa
Bilateral Neck Dissection 4/11/2007
39 x IMRT, 8 x Cisplatin Ended 7/11/07
Complete response to treatment so far!!
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#61960 10-31-2007 02:08 AM | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 Likes: 1 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2007 Posts: 622 Likes: 1 | Peanut butter and honey has been one of the things that has been a staple for me. Why doesn't it stick? No clue! But hey, whatever works, right? Taco Bell???!!!??? Well with my taste buds mutated into their new existence, maybe worth a try.... Like Gary, I took my own CD's in, and boy the looks from those young techs  I figured I may as well have as much fun with that as I could. I was amazed that they had NEVER heard of Emerson, Lake and Palmer... I think I converted one of them
18 YEAR SURVIVOR
SCC Tongue (T3N0M0) diag 06/2006.
No evidence of disease 2010
Another PET 12-2014 pre-HBO, still N.E.D.
�Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. It matters that you don't just give up.�
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#61961 10-31-2007 03:49 PM | Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 71 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 71 | Kevin, I will going going through this come mid November no set date as of yet. You made we worried then crying then laughing. I am glad you are on your way to recovery I can't wait til I can say. Just please keep use laughing.
Tammy 43 yr non smoker- Dx-10/11/07 Stage 4 Tongue Cancer Surg.10/17/07, 1/4 Tongue and 14 Lymph nodes 5 positive, Peg tube/Chemo port,Chemo 3 wks/Radiation 6 wks begins 11/07 end 02/08.Teeth removed prior to radiation. PetScan 05/08 CLEAR 09/09. 2011 diag. w/osteoradionecrosis.100 HBO's
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