\nSo I went to the doctor for a severe sinus infection that would not go away with several antibiotics! They sent me for a cat scan of my sinuses and found a pretty large mass on the back of my throat! They scraped it for a biopsy! i felt optimistic being that I never have smoked a cigarette a day in my life. When I received a phone call from my doctor on a Saturday morning, I got nervous. It is a malignant tumor! So I am heading down to Mount Sinai in Manhattan Friday morning for surgery! I will be in the hospital for a few days followed by 3 – 4 weeks at home and a full recovery (optimistically) of 6 – 8 weeks. I will be unable to speak for 14 days following surgery! The oncologist feels positive in this was caught early enough that it shouldn’t have spread. He doesn’t think that follow up treatments such as chemo will be necessary. Just a very hard and painful recovery! So I think my playing will be on hold until the end of this year. I may try to get up to Connecticut for a couple of hours this week, but lots to do to prepare. Being that I have 3 young boys, 7, 5 and 1, please pray that all goes well this upcoming weekend. Thank you!<\/p>\n
\tMichael<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on November 2, 2013, 7:19 pm<\/p>\n \tAs unfortunate as this is, you are lucky to have found it early enough that they can do something about it. Had the tumor been further down in the esophagus it could have been a different story. Tumors in the esophagus usually are not found until the mass is too large to do anything about. The positive prognosis from your oncologist is very encouraging.<\/p>\n \tWish you a speedy and complete recovery. You will be in our prayers.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Eagle Eye on November 2, 2013, 8:50 pm<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Mr Finesse on November 2, 2013, 9:06 pm<\/p>\n \tI will keep you in my prayers.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on November 2, 2013, 9:13 pm<\/p>\n \tAlligator Rose and I will be thinking of you and the family as you go through this ordeal. Be as positive as possible. You know all of GTC will keep you in our prayers.<\/p>\n \tDoc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> DoughBoy on November 2, 2013, 9:17 pm<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> OneMoonCircles on November 3, 2013, 1:19 am<\/p>\n \tOMC<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Goddess on November 3, 2013, 9:04 am<\/p>\n \tGoddess Sandtrap<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> The WoW Man on November 3, 2013, 4:09 pm<\/p>\n \tCatch you later!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> NofieldFive on November 3, 2013, 4:12 pm<\/p>\n \tNFF<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Dragboatracer on November 3, 2013, 7:50 pm<\/p>\n \tdragboatracer\/dbr<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> TommyC on November 4, 2013, 1:50 am<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> MIDNIGHT on November 6, 2013, 6:24 am<\/p>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Dominator on November 7, 2013, 1:08 pm<\/p>\n \tI just know that all will work out. God doesn’t want any more crap players up there at this time!<\/p>\n \tDominator<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> ColorUp on November 13, 2013, 1:05 pm<\/p>\n \tYou have been in my thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n \tI wish you a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n \tColorUp<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I went to the doctor for a severe sinus infection that would not go away with several antibiotics! They sent me for a cat scan of my sinuses and found a pretty large mass on the back of my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tTommyC<\/div>\n<\/div>\n