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Me an' NED at 6

Mikemetz
Mikemetz CSN Member Posts: 465 Member
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

I got the best Thanksgiving present I could hope for with a NED PET result last week.  It was almost exactly 6 years ago that the ENT used the C-word for the first time, and it's been a long hard battle for me and my wife ever since.  Truly, I would not be alive if it wasn't for her, some amazing doctors and nurses, and so much support from family and friends--including many of you here.

I am still not totally out of the woods from my jaw resection in May, with some lingering infection and some bone necrosis--but I am well enough to eat a lot of different foods and exercise when I want to.

Every year about this time I go back and read the blog I started in January of 2009.  Some of the postings scare me--and I know how they turned out!  Bottom line--for those of you still in the midst of the battle, keep fighting--it's a winnable battle with lots of good things left in life once you've made it through.  Life will never be "normal" again, but the "new normal" sure beats the alternative! Cool

mike

 

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