The Cancer.
with THE in the front unnecessarily. Like a retiree from Yonkers.
"He's gaht thah cancah"
I'm gonna try to cover 3 years in 3 minutes. Let's see if I can pull this off.
Dec. 2011 (just before Christmas) ~ He went to the general doctor because of a growth on his tongue. Dr says "WHOA! Go to this ENT guy STAT! Book the appointment saying you need a biopsy of that thing!"
Please note...... until he took my kids with him to this appointment while I was at work & the doctor was freaked out, I had never heard of a growth on his tongue.
Additionally, he doesn't smoke or dip. So why is it there?!
2 Days after Christmas 2011 ~ ENT does biopsy & says call me Thursday
Thursday Evening while driving to the lake house to see all of the family for New Years ~
Me: Did you call the Dr?
Him: No.
Me:......................
Friday he got the call & they told him that they needed him at the office to "break the news." I said OH NO YOU DON'T!!! Dr. called back & said "You have cancer"
So.... Squamous Cell Carcinoma is what he had. Has. It's a skin cancer that is also a head & neck cancer that is linked to HPV in young men. I'll get into that later.
Jan 2012 ~ Surgery to remove the tumor on his tongue & removed 100 lymph nodes in his neck. That's right folks...... he was cut ear to ear & they pulled them out. They tested everything. all lymph nodes are clear. So they're like.... Yeah man! You're good! No need for chemo & radiation!
May 2013 (returning from him being the best man in his BFF's wedding in Cayman Islands) ~
Him: Babe, book me an appointment with ENT guy again. Something is in my left neck.
June 2013 ~ Surgery to figure that out means removal of sub-mandibular gland, his left jugular & once that was gone they found a sack of 10 nodes where the cancer was.
Summer of 2013 ~ Mon-Fri radiation & Tuesday Chemo for 6.5 weeks
April 2014 ~ Gigantic noticeable growth coming out of nowhere lower center neck.
May 2014 ~ Surgery to remove his thyroid because the cancer was all over that! & the other tumor that had showed up behind his right clavicle. Other really difficult things require plastics to come in & pull his right pectoral muscle into his neck for "some meat" during radiation that he'll require & a skin graft.
Summer 2014 ~ More chemo & radiation for 6 weeks
Sept 2014 ~ We go in for the 6 weeks post treatment scans. Badda Bing. Badda Boom. He has more of the cancer. And that's where we stand. Again.... you can ALWAYS go get more from him at bastobb.blogspot.com
I more or less wanted to give others the grand scope of things before I really started to move into what's happening tomorrow & the next day. Tomorrow .... no wait...... actually today is my oldest birthday. He's ten. 10!!!!!!!!!! So here's a picture of my beautiful baby :)
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