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since Georgetown Univ Hospital is Jesuit run-replete with crucifixes in each room rather than crosses- the "help" can:t be declined - after all it is for "your own good". Not as impressive as when I was a cradle catholic with nuns in full habits and wimples and elegantly (compared to parish priests)black suited jesuits as now it is just fellow laypersons. I digress
So I just did the whole program in a half hour: "grapevining down the corrridors, :race walking (and beating handily)the therapist . the one foot in front of the other in a straight line, walking backwards ("too fast - be careful) knee high stepping (with bandleader exagerated baton hand gestures gratuitioudly added) and doing the stairwell eyes shut ("please open your eyes - the point isn't to show off"), So now I am formally excepted from the dawn of he dead zombie march ("that's just cruel-you're one of the lucky ones") The last one did prompt me to reply about no comparison between Stage IV cancer recurrence and knee or hip surgery which the walkers had. Trach tube may bee out tomorrow and pathology report due then or Wed. Praying for clear margins.

Last edited by Charm2017; 03-02-2009 08:57 PM. Reason: freudian typo

65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin

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That will teach them...

Good luck Wed.


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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You sure CHARMED me with that annalog. Got me laughing for sure. Now go and charm the pants off the Drs.


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.
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Hoping for clear margins for you.

Patty


48
SCC Floor of Mouth 7/06
9/06 Surgery, bilateral neck dissection, 58 nodes clear PT2pN0pMx
35 rad 2006
Recurred 6/08, 1 Carboplatin, 1 Cisplatin
Surgery 9/08 - Total glossectomy, free flap from pectoral muscle, left mandible replaced using fibula
35 IMRT & Erbitux 11/08
4/15/09 recurrence
6/1/09 passed away, rest in peace
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