Hello Friends,
Well I finally have the diagnoses on what the hell is going on with my throat. For those of you that haven't spoken to me in person over the last view months I have gradually went extremely hoarse. The first diagnosis that I got was that it was Laryngeal Papillomatosis, which is basically a growth on the vocal cord. I under went surgery on August 5th to have it removed and biopsy. Well the results can back and it was not what was first diagnosed. I have Carcinoma Insitu of the Larynx, which is cancer of the vocal box. The Insitu part means that it is very early, the Docs (yes I saw about six yesterday) said it is the earliest it can be detected. This Cancer has a 95% cure rate and there is only a 1 to 2% chance that it spread to my limp nods. I was told that it was extremely superficial at the moment. Since my original Surgery wasn't for Cancer, the Doc didn't do a Cancer Surgery. Thus I am going to need treatment to get read of any remaining cancer cells. I have two options for treatment:
1) I can have surgery again and they can remove more tissue from my vocal cords. The problem with this is that I will be hoarse for the rest of my life since there isn't much tissue on the vocal cords to begin with.
2) Radiation is the second option. I would need to do Radiation once a day, every day for 5 ½ weeks. The issues with this is that I will be fatigued, sick, have a red spot on my throat from the treatment that will fade after, my throat will swell and I will have trouble swallowing (insert jokes here) and I will become more hoarse. This treatment will however preserve my voice and it should come back to normal after treatment.
I have chose option 2. I start treatment the day after Labor Day. On Wednesday August 20th I had a body suit made so that they only radiate the area that needs it. If the cancer would show back up after the radiation I would then have to have the Surgery, which they assure me would take care of the cancer.
Please if you have any questions feel free to ask, if you hear others talking about this please direct them to my blog or tell them to ask me directly. I really want everyone to know what is really going on and not have rumors floating around.
Keep me in your thoughts! But know I will be fine!
Marc
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