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01-06-2010, 08:21 PM
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One Mans Journey with Oral Cancer
As best I can remember, I've dipped the same brand of tobacco for about 30 years. In seventh grade I started hanging out with a few cowboy types. My father chews tobacco and did back then. But chew never interested me much. A few of my friends dipped, thus I dipped too. The warning labels on the cans of smokeless didn't appear until 1986, and I remember I didn't need to be a certain age to buy it. I even won a trip to the Daytona 500 in 1989 from the makers of my dip. So I dipped. I learned how to hide it from teachers and bosses. I could dip all day and no one ever knew I had one in my mouth. If I was hunting, I dipped. If I was fishing, I dipped. I was never hooked on it of course. RIGHT! I was hooked big time. Though I had quit a few times I never gave it up. If you ever dipped, gave it up, then started again, you most likely know the high you get from it. It is addictive. It is a drug. Last year I noticed a spot on the inside of my cheek. Was I worried? I guess in a way I wondered about it, but I knew it wasn't cancer. I couldn't get cancer. I finally went to an oral surgeon in September 2005. When I got the phone call, the news wasn't good. Squamous Cell Carcinoma. As it was explained to me, this was basically a skin cancer. What made it bad though is it had gone unchecked inside my mouth since it was out of sight. Thus it became what the doctors called moderately invasive. I set up an appointment with M.D.Anderson Cancer Center. If I was gonna get cancer work done, I was going to the best. After running CT scans other tests, my doctor came to same the conclusion. Very little time was wasted and my operation was set up for December 8th. I was told of the difficulties involved. The loss of feeling. How it would take time to talk right again. That eating would be a problem. Dr. Holsinger let me know from square one, he wouldn't know how much had to be taken til he got in and tested the area. I ended up losing 3 teeth, alot of gum and the inside lining of my cheek. The following are just a few of the pictures from my surgery. One picture even shows the complete area removed from me.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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01-06-2010, 08:42 PM
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 My Rank: FIRST SERGEANT Poster Rank:418 Stoned Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,759 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)
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Re: One Mans Journey with Oral Cancer
First half of the pictures he looks like the tron guy, second half he looks like the dojo owner from the jesus taught me video
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04-22-2013, 02:57 AM
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Re: One Mans Journey with Oral Cancer
Thanks for sharing your story. Being addicted to anything is such a ordeal in itself, to have this happen on top of it must be scary and devastating. I hope you are cancer free and I really feel that you sharing your experience will save lives and spare others the ordeal you have gone through. Best wishes!
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