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pascotty
pascotty Member Posts: 174 Member
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

Hi to everyone young and old, I just wanted to let you know I'm still alive and doing extremely well, Dx 2009 Right tonsil cancer, 3 chemo cisplatin and 35 rads.  All my tastebuds have now returned, chocolate was the last one to get and saliva is about 70%, I chew sugar free gum everyday I think this helped my sweet buds come back.  Tinnitus is still around, slight hearing loss still, but all in all, happy days.  This is a very curable cancer. Treatment is rough buy survivable.  Good luck to all on your journeys.  Love and light to all xxxx Jen from Western Australia

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  • ratface
    ratface Member Posts: 1,337 Member
    #2
    Great to see you doing well

    From a fellow classmate of 2009 It's nice to see you doing so well. Tough school to graduate from but we did it! Congrats on surviving!

  • hwt
    hwt Member Posts: 2,328 Member
    #3
    ratface said:

    Great to see you doing well

    From a fellow classmate of 2009 It's nice to see you doing so well. Tough school to graduate from but we did it! Congrats on surviving!

    Congrats!

    Encourafing for so many.

  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #4
    Hi Jen

    That is wonderful news, I am very happy for you, keep up the good work

     

    God Bless

    Tim

  • wmc
    wmc Member Posts: 1,804
    #5
    Wonderful news..........

    Thank you for checking in and letting you are doing so good.

  • Greg53
    Greg53 Member Posts: 849
    #6
    wmc said:

    Wonderful news..........

    Thank you for checking in and letting you are doing so good.

    Great News!

    Jen,

    Nice to hear this news!  Also nice to see some familiar faces from "back in the day". 

    Greg - Class of '10

  • osmotar
    osmotar Member Posts: 1,006
    #7
    Wonderful News

    great news, I'm 2 yrs behind you DX 2011 scc stage 4a rt tonsil....feeling really good , saliva probably 90% , still drink lots and lots of water...the only taste that didn't really come back is beef, but a small price to pay to be healthy. 

    Congrats again.

     

    linda 

  • pascotty
    pascotty Member Posts: 174 Member
    #8
    All those familiar faces

    sooooooo glad to see all your little faces (profiles). And so glad to post such positive comments. I remember feeling so helpless and defeated. Who would have thought .....  Your all in my thoughts mwah xxx

  • rush1958
    rush1958 Member Posts: 221 Member
    #9
    Great to hear!

    Great to hear you've mended well.

    Happy dance.

    Rush

  • jackflash22
    jackflash22 Member Posts: 524 Member
    #10
    Hi

    hi pascotty

    I too didn't think I'd come out the other side. I'm feeling back to normal health wise. I'm energetic and positive. Can't eat solids but can blitz and drink through a straw. At some stages during the last two years I thought I'd met my fate but touch wood I'm enjoying life again. Got most of my saliva back, mucous practically gone, taste buds better on really sweet things, lost my liking of savoury, think maybe that will come back. All in all I'm satisfied how I am now.

  • tommyodavey
    tommyodavey Member Posts: 726 Member
    #11
    jackflash22 said:

    Hi

    hi pascotty

    I too didn't think I'd come out the other side. I'm feeling back to normal health wise. I'm energetic and positive. Can't eat solids but can blitz and drink through a straw. At some stages during the last two years I thought I'd met my fate but touch wood I'm enjoying life again. Got most of my saliva back, mucous practically gone, taste buds better on really sweet things, lost my liking of savoury, think maybe that will come back. All in all I'm satisfied how I am now.

    Welcome Back

    Hi Pascotty,

     

    It was good to see your name posted here again and to know you're alright and doing well.  My case goes back to 2011 and I'm fine too.  The tinitus I had prior to treatment so it is something I learned to live with.  They can add white noise to a hearing aid but I said no thanks.  So what if it sounds like Niagra Falls all the time?  I just pretent I'm there!

     

    Thanks for the update,

     

    Tom

  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #12
    Class of 2009

    WooHoo..., another here.., nice of you to drop in.. Tongue Out

  • avisemi
    avisemi Member Posts: 172
    #13
    Awesome! 

    Laughing

    Awesome! 

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