Two year checkup....NED

I really have never been nervous about going for my checkups. When they took my larynx they got the tumor and everything around it and them some. Then they took 86 total lymph glands from both sides [48 on the left and 38 on the right] just as a precaution. They did think one looked like it might be something before the surgery, so they did a neck dissection on both sides because of my lungs they wanted to save the radiation for later. They did ask if I wanted to do radiation, which I didn't. My doctor also said that he is not recomending it and feels I don't need it. If he would have said he did recomend it I would as I had so much faith in him. I did my research before and new I could go anywhere I wanted. I chose Stanford for several reasons. It has a great National rating in both Cancer and ENT. Texas was not going to be practical for travel as my wife will not fly and my son needed to be able to come and go back home when needed. His credentials where he graduated and did his internship was some of the best.

When I told him that I could whistel and blow up a balloon he asked me to do the videos. I thought he was just being kind. He said If I do them and have them on YouTube he then could use them and there was no conflict because he could not film me. Too many Doctor, patients confidentially rules and problems. I never thought he would really use them that much. I believed the SLP would because when we met before surgery she got on the phone and had me talk to a person that had the prosthesis I was going to have. I could not tell he had one.

I think this is the reason I have the need to help support others. Kinda like Pay it foward or at lease pay it somehow for been given a second chance on life. I owe someone..........

Bill