Soooo....I Have Cancer

You have an amazing attitude, all the best with evereything

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Just checking in for any updates. Hope your holiday is filled with love, support and healing.

Your progress sounds great. I work in the cancer field -- and cancer is not an automatic death sentence any longer. In many cases, it's treated like a chronic, manageable condition. And new advances in cancer research are made all the time. The treatments are really getting pretty great. Lots of genomic testing -- think precision versus power. Sounds like you have a good treatment team and you're doing everything right. You're young -- you can handle this. You ARE handling this. Hat's off to you and thank you for your bravery and courage in posting here. :-)

Awesome attitude you will get through it
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Thank you so much for sharing your continuing story with us! I can only imagine how difficult this has all been for you, but it sounds like you are healing up very well! It's great that you're able to be on here and share your struggles as well as your triumphs with all of us.

I'm sending lots of positive thoughts for quick recovery your way!

Glad you felt you could post here for support and just to get it off your chest...I think you are very brave and positive. ..and your doctor's sound great and positive...all of this makes me believe you will kick cancer ' *kitten*. Sending positive thoughts your way. Fight, fight, fight...You can beat it!

I am a 3 year cancer survivor and I know exactly what you felt when you heard those infamous words, "you have cancer". I'm so sorry that you have gone through all of this but it sounds like things are going well for you now. Keep your chin up, stay positive and keep fighting the fight. I hope that you continue to heal well and that you can soon get back to a normal life (although after hearing those words, life is never really normal again). Many hugs and prayers for you.

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I'm not sure when I last posted in this thread but here's the Cliff's Notes version:

- Radiation started September 3.
- It was awful (it's hard to imagine that the 9+ hour surgery + the 7 days in the hospital was going to be the EASY part of all of this). My mouth was covered with sores and I had the thickest phlegm in my throat constantly....which caused me to routinely choke and gag....and made it almost impossible to sleep for more than a few hours at a time.
- Had to rely on my feeding tube 100% for about 6 weeks since I couldn't chew or swallow anything except for a bit of water each day.
- Radiation finished October 14.
- Follow-up w/ surgeon in early November, he was VERY pleased with progress.
- Feeding tube out on November 18.
- Follow-up w/ oncologist November 21, he was also very pleased with progress.
- Back to work November 25.
- CRUSHED Thanksgiving dinner.
- Follow-up w/ ENT doc (who initially diagnosed me back in June) December 12, said things look great.
- Swallowing is still a bit of a challenge at times as is chewing.
- I still can't feel anything on the right side of my tongue/mouth but hopefully that will get better over the next few months/years. So right now it's all on the left side of my mouth which makes my jaw get tired really quickly.
- PET scan scheduled for January 15, and follow-up w/ ENT to go over results on January 23.
- Will likely have follow-ups every 4-6 weeks for the next year or so and then move to every 8-12 weeks.
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So glad that things turned out so well for you. I pray that they continue to improve.

hoping that all goes will for you. i ,also , had cancer ( of the lung) had a peice of it removed. that was in 2006 . so far i've been ok. hoping that you will let us know how you are doing keep strong!!