| Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 179 Senior Member (100+ posts) | Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 179 | Jim, is that REALLY you?  Oh thank heavens!  SO glad to see ya back here. Lots of prayers went your way, Carol and I kept in contact via email and phone, I was so worried about you! I certainly hope you are comfortable and not in too much pain. Rest and do what you can to take care of yourself! {{HUGS}}
Dad: Age 65 Heavy smoker/drinker. Biopsy-No surgery. Cancer base of tongue/throat. "Invasive Squamous Carcinoma RRT" --Beginning 1/9/08: IMRT treatments (5X/wk),chemo pills (4/day) and Chemo IV (once/wk) PEG tube inserted 1/25/08. Treatments ended 2/26/08
JUNE 30, 2008 Officially CANCER FREE!!! | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Jim,
Take it easy on the post Tx promises. I made a lot and most you will wish you hadn't made when you are your old normal self again. I speak from painful experience on this issue. My wife has this one letter I wrote to her, obviously all doped up on something and wouldn't stand up in a court of law, that she pulls out occasionally to torment me. LOL
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
| | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | LOL David,, I sure understand the statements made while spaced out. Hell, I even saw pink elephants for a couple of days. Ihope I never have that experience again. LOL Ont thing that does burn me , I listed my house for sale 2 days before surgery. Apparently the house was shown. I am missing a 32 degree Masonic Ring and a Jules Jurgenson Wrist Watch with 20 diamonds. I don't mind the watch, but the ring is not only valuable, but has sentimental value to me as well. Old dummy here left them on the kitchen table. I already made a police report after making sure they weren't in my safe or elsewhere. I'll call Ins tomorrow. I have lost a total of 54 lbs so far. Look like a fish that has been out of water for 2 weeeks. my nose area is healing up fast and I hope the rest does too.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April. --- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
| | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 794 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 794 | Hey there Jim! So happy to read that you are doing better.....I was feeling a bit anxious like the rest of your friends here. At least now they (at the hospital) will have a better understanding of your some of your sensitivies to drugs. Sorry about your jewelry, especially your ring...maybe someone, or you, put it somewhere 'safe' and it will show up soon. Again, I am so happy to see you on and fighting!! Lots of Love, Donna
Donna CG to Mom, dx 4/25/07 with tongue cancer,T3N0,tx began 7/6/07, 31 tx's of IMRT, 8 cycles of Erbitux. Brachytherapy, surgery, left neck dissection and temp trach placed all on 9/17/07, trach removed 10/17/07. ORN of jaw, late effect of radiation symptoms. **lost my beautiful mother on 5/5/11.
| | | | Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Where are you gonna live when you sell the house? Did you call the realtor? I would hold them responsible for the loss. They are not supposed to let clients wander around the house picking up whatever valuables appeal to them. I'd carefully check the rest of the house also. If they were brazen enough to pick up something in plain sight, they may have been brazen enough to steal other stuff also. Does any of this jewelry have inscriptions so it can be identified when it shows up at the pawn shop? That really s..ks. I'd make certain that realtor didn't get a dime in commission from me.
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
| | | | Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 30 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 30 | Hey Jim, Good to see you back. I also would hold the realtor responsible for the ring, that stinks.
Bruce
Age 57 SCC Stage3 BOT and 1 node PEG 35RADS 7CHEMOS Tx over 9-17-07 tube out 10-12-07 back to work 10-15-07.
| | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,301 "OCF Down Under" Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | "OCF Down Under" Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,301 | Great to hear from you Jim. Have not checked the site for around a week now and went straight to "feeling terrible" to see how you were going. Maybe the topic name can be changed soon to something more positive now  Cheers Gabe
History Leukoplakia bx 8/2006 SCC floor mouth T3N0M0- Verrucous Carcinoma. 14 hour 0p SCC-Right ND/excision/marginal mandibulectomy 9/2006, 4 teeth removed, flap from wrist, trach-ng 6 days- no chemo/rad. 6 ops and debulking (flap/tongue join) + bx's 2006-2012. bx Jan 2012 Hyperkeratosis-Epithelial Dysplasia 24cm GIST tumour removed 8/2013. Indefinite Oral Chemo.
1/31/16 passed away peacefully surrounded by family
| | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Jim.
I think you will have an up hill fight at best if you think the Realtor will accept responsibility for those 2 items unless you or someone made the Realtor aware of their position in the house in writing sent Certified Mail. Not implying anything but you can imagine that anyone could claim that anything was in their house at the time of a showing, say $1,000,000 ring. Your best and probably only viable recourse is homeowners insurance and I would get a police report number to back it up.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
| | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | ve no idea how or why,, but I found my ring and watch in the glove box of my T&C van. LOL funny how thigs can move themselves.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April. --- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
| | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | CHEMO BRAIN, we all had/have it. I guess your lucky you didn't press the issue to far or you might have been put in the slammer and would have ended up someone's b%*$h.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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