#79748 09-01-2008 12:58 PM | Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 12 Member | OP  Member
Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 12 | Hi,
I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Kendall and I am the wife/caregiver to my husband who recently completed treatment for oral cancer. I have been lurking here for the last 2.5 months and have received so much valuable information from you all as what to expect with the cancer itself and treatment and post-treatment side effects. Thanks. This site has truly been a blessing. Now I'm off to the caregivers forum as I have some heavy questions that are weighing on my heart.
Thanks again.
Wife and caregiver to David, diagnosed with squamous cell cancer/Stage 4 5/08. Primary on left tonsil stub, spread to left neck lymph nodes. 38 IMRT/3 cisplatin completed on 7/31/08.
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Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 309 | welcome, Kendall. So glad you found this forum. I am still fairly new here myself, coming when i was diagnosed in July... so I too have valued the great information found here and the wonderful support. Glad you have said hello so we all know you are here and can converse with you.
Hang in there and blessings to you and David. Hope all goes well with his recovery.
Rita - Age 44
wife, mother of 4 - ages 3,16,21,24 & grandma to 1
(R upper) Maxillectomy 8/8/08 - UW / Seattle, WA.
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"Those who think by the inch and speak by the yard, should be kicked by the foot."
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,357 Likes: 5 | Welcome Kendall. As a patient I'm following you to the caregivers forum to find out what you caregivers talk about when left to yourselves!! Post often, hope we can help.
Donna
Donna,69, SCC L Tongue T2N1MO Stg IV 4/04 w/partial gloss;32 radtx; T2N2M0 Stg IV; R tongue-2nd partial gloss w/graft 10/07; 30 radtx/2 cispl 2/08. 3rd Oral Cancer surgery 1/22 - Stage 1. 2022 surgery eliminated swallowing and bottom left jaw. Now a “Tubie for Life”.no food envy - Thank God! Surviving isn't easy!!!! .Proudly Canadian - YES, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS WONDERFUL! (Not perfect but definitely WONDERFUL)
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Welcome aboard and I'm following Donna to caregivers.
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
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Hi Kendall:
Welcome to OCF. Hope your months of reading were benficial to you and your husband. There is so much info on the forum and also on the main site too. Hope your husband is having an easy time of it with his recovery.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | |
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