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On a Lighter Note *Happy Birthday, John*
Fellow Survivors and Caregivers !! Please join me in wishing John (Skiffin16) a very Happy Birthday today. Let's load him up with birthday wishes. John, we all appreciate you and your words of wisdom and encouragement. You have been there for so many as we face our initial diagnosis, the terror of our treatment plans, and…
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Skiffin16
Happy Birthday John! thank you for all you do to help in so many ways here on CSN enjoy your day, may you catch a live well full of fish john
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Newbie. Don't really want to join your club, but you all seem so nice.
Hello all, I've been lurking for some time and have already learned so much from many of you. My husband was diagnosed a month ago, and we were headed down the path of the standard chemoradiation, then went to a tumor review board who instead suggested TORS surgery and neck dissection. When they recommended surgery it was…
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Peg tube
Hi- I'm just starting to make whole food for my husband. I need a very good food processor that will liquidity thin enough to go through his tube. Does anyone have a good suggestion? Thanks!
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I can sing!
Hey folks, Tomorrow is the benefit and silent auction planned and put together by my friend and singing partner. We've dubbed it Mark "T"'s Beat the Beast Benefit and Silent Auction. We're doing this to help offset my living expenses for the next few months until I can get back to work. There are dozens of donated items…
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My warrior is gone...
My friends, Your loving messages over the past couple of days were beyond eanything I could have hoped for. Sadly, Dad died last night. My husband, sister, brother, and brother-in-law, and I were there and with him as he was removed from the c-PAP. 1940s music softly played and he moved a bit to Glenn Miller's "String of…
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My husband can't keep anything down. Very nauseated after first chemo
Hey everyone. My husband just had his first week of treatments. Cisplatin Chemo on Monday and radiation for five days a week. He has been diagnosed with head/neck cancer. Has tumor on base of tongue with metastisis on both sides of lymph nodes. He is only 56 years old. Since his chemo on monday, he is unable to eat…
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Neck Cramps
Has anyone had the pleasure of experiencing severe neck cramps after a tongue disection? I was cut from ear to ear including the muscles in my neck and now I get neck cramps only on my right side. I have learned to divert them but when I can't catch them on time they are the most painful cramps I have ever experienced.…
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More to deal with..
Amazing when you think life is going to calm down and just serve up some scan anxiety for a few months, I went to the dr and he ordered 3 MRI's of my spine.. interestingly I have 4 issues. The first, I have something in my thyroid. I have read that only 10% of lumps in thyroids are cancer, but I could become both a the…
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South East Coast Meets North West Coast ~ Skiffin16 - Hawk711 Shoot Out...
Met up with one of my old time buds and CSN Warrior Steve ~ Hawk711 yesterday on his turf, or near it... San Rafael... WOW, it has been a long time since I've been to the San Fran Bay Area..., never really that far north of SF either. Such a beautiful place..., being an artist I would love to have a place like this for…
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hubby done with his chemo and rad today more side effects?
Hello everyone, my husband done with his 3rd chemo yesterday and 33 rad today. SCC base of the tongue cancer stage 3....were so happy that he is done chemo and rad.. but i'm still worry about the more side effects after the treatment. the radiologist told us after the radiation the first week is very hard and expect for…
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Wife undergoing treatment for stage 2 tongue cancer
hello i am new to this forum. as I type, I am sitting in hospital room with my wife who has just undergone surgery for tongue cancer. They removed about 1/3 of her tongue and put flesh from her arm in its place and flesh from her leg in the arms place. She is thought to be stage 2 but we havent got pathology report back…
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End of 3rd Week
Tomorrow will be last treatment of 3rd week and my husband is getting worse day by day but still working (he is afraid that he might lose his job, his boss is not very cooperative and they also start to look for new person for my husband’s job). I would like to know if anyone has work during the treatment?? Also he started…
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For those of you that had Mucous
Anyone take Musinex? It's supposed to thin out and help expectorate. Did it do any good? I'm making massive amounts today. Thanks, Joe Cortney Dallas, TX
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Random thoughts
For some strange reason, I lay awake last night and thought about why I had cancer and what could have caused it~~ I'm one of those people that will enter heaven, sliding in with a yipee, what a ride! I'm 66 now and all my life have been a chance taker and a try anything woman~~ I worked in a factory for 12 years…
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How do I find my posts?
I asked some questions and I can't find my posts to see the answers. Help!
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Checking in
I am 4 months post treatment, and for the most part doing OK, struggling with nutrition, still no swallow, and fatiged all the time, when do these symptoms start to get better? I am trying to return to work 1/2 days and it just wipes me out, but can't continue with no income. Feel like I am between a rock and a hard place,…
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I am losing my warrior...
My dad’s battle with cancer has been stopped. A few weeks ago I wrote about his parotid gland infection. Well, that turned-into a fast-moving sepsis, hospitalization, cessation of radiation treatments, insertion of g-tube, and scans that indicate the cancer has metastasized to the neck area of C3-4; C4-5. I guess I was…
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Question
I am a 15 year stage 3 IDC breast cancer with many lymphnodes affected. I am writing wondering how many of you might have had lumps that were benign before finding out you actually had cancer. I have had many lumps and they too have affected my health but were dx'd benign and some not removed because doctors felt not…
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Dental Question for Billie67 and/or those without teeth
HI. I am 5 months out from Tonsil cancer treatment. Prior to treatment I had all of my teeth removed. I saw in a previous post that you said that debris below the gum line can cause loss of bone, etc. If you do not have teeth how can you prevent debris in gum line? I brush my tongue after meals and rinse with biotene…
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A Rare Breed Indeed
Hey everyone, What an absolutely crazy two days. I had an appointment to go see my surgeon on Monday morning to get the staples out and getthe results of the biopsies and surgery. I did make it to my appointment but unfortunately not in the manner I would have preferred. I went to bed Sunday night and was awakened by a…
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One of us back to work...
Evening All, Just wanted to say, I am not being rude, but just took on the work challenge again. I work from home so it's not a major change for Dan, however it's another 40-50 hours to toss into all the new jobs I have acquired the last few months. I am able to read more than I have participated, but know I am here.. and…
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Positives and prayer request for my brother-in-law
Hello dear friends, My kid sister called with some scary news. Her hubby had prostrate cancer 2 yrs. ago, and is doctoring w/the V.A. His dx was linked w/his service in Nam. Now he has probable mets to lungs, and had CT done. Will know more this week. He also has a massive blood clot in his lower leg. They sent him home…
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Constantly concerned about a sniffle
Hi everyone, you all seem to be so much help that I wanted to come right here to help me deal with new issue. Ever since being in hospital with apiration phenumonia due to new tx of Dysphagaia, constantly paranoid of cough or gergal sound which is usally phelm to cough out(salvia so bad, to dry to push salvia without water…
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Constanly concerned
Hi everyone, you all seem to be so much help that I wanted to come right here to help me deal with new issue. Ever since being in hospital with apiration phenumonia due to new tx of Dysphagaia, constantly paranoid of cough or gergal sound which is usally phelm to cough out(salvia so bad, to dry to push salvia without water…
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Dental questions
Hi all, most of us visit our dentist 3 to 4 times a year for cleaning, what I want to ask is do you do deep gum cleaning or just regular cleaning? personally i never had deep cleaning done before. Any issues doing deep cleaning post radiation?
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1 year and almost 4 months (March 2,2013 )
check up and scope....a little nervous
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3rd week of Red
Hello everyone, weekend was great My husband had his first acupuncture therapy and he felt more saliva in his mouth all weekend log and he still have saliva in his mouth so that’s great the sad part is he already have mouth sores and it's hard to eat for him. We started aloe vera juice and l-glutamine powder (one spoon…
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Hip replacement
David had chemo this morning and will continue on a Monday schedule. We saw the orthopedic surgeon today. He has spoken with our hematology oncologist and they have decided David needs a hip replacement. So we go on March 7 for a hip replacement at UK and will stay a few days and then David will do intensive therapy at…
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Why my husband can’t open his mouth wide open to eat -3rd week of red?
Why my husband can’t open his mouth wide open to eat -3rd week of red As I posted in my first posing that my husband is going with 7weeks of radiation and beside other side effects he having problem opening his mouth to eat!! Is this normal? What I can do to help? Thanks, Hetal