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Wishing All A Merry & Blessed Christmas

wbcgaruss
wbcgaruss CSN Member Posts: 2,580 Member
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

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Wishing you great healing and whatever your needs are and everyone feel free to post Christmas wishes or comments.

If anyone wants to watch a Live Streamed Christmas Eve Service here is the link below and it starts at 9:00 pm Eastern--

https://beverlyheights.org/live/

Merry Christmas Everyone-Take Care-God Bless-Russ

 

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  • Logan51
    Logan51 CSN Member Posts: 488 Member
    edited December 2020 #2
    Harumph?

    Laughing Merry Christmas to you, Russ, and everyone on our H&N Forum. Hoping 2021 is a better one for you, and for everyone. Laughing

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  • big G
    big G CSN Member Posts: 177 Member
    edited December 2020 #3
    Logan51 said:

    Harumph?

    Laughing Merry Christmas to you, Russ, and everyone on our H&N Forum. Hoping 2021 is a better one for you, and for everyone. Laughing

    Wishes

    Merry Christmas to everyone!   Hoping for a healthy and Happy New year!

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  • ERomanO
    ERomanO CSN Member Posts: 327
    edited December 2020 #4
    Merry Christmas...

    ...and blessings to all.  

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  • ricksmithgolfer
    ricksmithgolfer CSN Member Posts: 89 Member
    edited December 2020 #5
    God Bless All

    Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all. May 2021 be a wonderful year for all my fellow warriors and their families.

    Rick

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  • ProustLover
    ProustLover CSN Member Posts: 127 Member
    edited December 2020 #6
    Tidings of Comfort and Joy

    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all special friends.  It is a Chinese blessing (or possibly curse) to say "May you live in interesting times."  Here's to wishing that 2021 is a little less interesting for all of us...and wishing that all will be well.  

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  • patricke
    patricke CSN Member Posts: 570 Member
    edited December 2020 #7
    Happy Holidays

    I wish everyone the Happiest and Healthiest Holidays. Whatever your challenges may be, stay positive, and Keep It Mov'in Forward.      

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  • Mattie65
    Mattie65 CSN Member Posts: 82 Member
    edited December 2020 #8
    Thank you, Russ

    I wish you the same, even though I'm a bit late.

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  • Mikemetz
    Mikemetz CSN Member Posts: 465 Member
    edited December 2020 #9
    Back at you, Russ

    We had a rare white Christmas in the North GA mountains--one of the few highlights in 2020.  New beard, dude?  Or new photo?

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  • wbcgaruss
    wbcgaruss CSN Member Posts: 2,580 Member
    edited December 2020 #10
    Mikemetz said:

    Back at you, Russ

    We had a rare white Christmas in the North GA mountains--one of the few highlights in 2020.  New beard, dude?  Or new photo?

    That Photo

    Is an old pre-cancer photo. I can't grow a solid beard anymore since radiation.

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  • Mattie65
    Mattie65 CSN Member Posts: 82 Member
    #11
    wbcgaruss said:

    That Photo

    Is an old pre-cancer photo. I can't grow a solid beard anymore since radiation.

    Beard

    You mean the beard hair lost during radiation won't come back? Or is this individual?

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  • wbcgaruss
    wbcgaruss CSN Member Posts: 2,580 Member
    edited December 2020 #12
    The Beard Will Grow But

    Some areas are thinner and growth or thickness is not consistent. So it will grow to different lengths and thicknesses, not a presentable growth anymore. I remember after my radiation it was 3 or 4 months till I had to shave again. It sort of looks like a field of crops in a bad year. Definitely noticeable so I just shave mostly now. That picture is from August of 2008 which is 4 years pre-cancer. I think a lot of guys who had radiation have beard changes but I am not sure. I will make a new post.

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  • Mikemetz
    Mikemetz CSN Member Posts: 465 Member
    #13
    It's complicated...

    Now that we are in a full blown beard thread, here's my story.  I had a full beard in 2009 when i was diagnosed.  It actually hid my tumor for a long time.  After rads I was like Russ--could grow a beard after a few months, but it was scraggly.  My hope was to be able to grow out a goatee to hide some of my scarring, but then needed a skin graft from my lower left arm during a jaw replacement surgery.  That arm skin didn't have any hair follicles in it, so it will be bare forever.  But the good news in all of this is that I only need to shave about once a week, and a can of shaving cream lasts about 5 years!

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