Hello MikiMaus, 

I am so sorry to hear you have been diagnosed with T3 squamous cell carcinoma of the right vocal chord. It's great you are keeping your great sense of humour despite your diagnosis. You did make me smile too when you said you sound like a squeaky mouse. You are definitely not annoying anyone with your cheerfulness and we completely stand by your side in not letting this cancer get you down for as long as possible and I hope that our online community will help you keep up the good spirits and the feeling that you are not alone on this journey, that others are by your side every step of the way on this forum. 

I have found a couple of threads from members who have been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma - for example Mentalist posted this thread about being diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of vocal cord and Bexbex52 posted this thread about being diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the throat - these are just a couple of examples and I hope that you will hear from others on here who have had a similar diagnosis in the past and that they will be happy to share their experiences with you. 

I also wanted to let you know that we have a nurse helpline you can ring if you ever have any questions or simply wish to talk things through - feel free to call our cancer nurses on this free number 0808 800 4040 Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. 

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

Great to hear the humour, I have a T2 cancer on tonsil, but Ive always had a deep voice I have asked if they could alter it by about a semi octave, but they say nor, was worth asking even though in jjest

It's good to hear that you haven't lost your sense of humour either. I think it's the one thing that will make this in some way bearable (once we've got over telling people that we're not just putting on a brave face :-)) I'm sure you'll be OK and well looked after and there's now no shame in asking for ice-cream for breakfast, dinner and teatime.

Keep smiling, it's really important.

Hi Lucie.

Thanks for the links, I'm going to look at them now, once I've steadied my nerves with tea and biscuits. I think self medicating with milk chocolate hob-nobs at this time was OK'd by the nurse.

Also thanks for replying and sharing the other information. Everything is still new and I'm learning a lot quite fast but it keeps me busy.

You are so funny! Self-medicating with tea, biscuits and milk chocolate hobnobs ha ha that made me laugh. A cup of tea solves everything apparently!

I am glad the links were helpful and I hope that you will also make some good connections here on the forum. 

I wondered if your avatar was from the graphic novel Maus? That book is such a masterpiece.

Lucie

What a great choice Miki! It's making me feel like reading it again.

Me too. I should be my companion through the next few months. I'm not sure my cat Hawkeye will approve of how cats are portrayed but he sleeps most of the time so I'll probably get away with it. :-)