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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Karen,
I couldn't eat much for at least six weeks to two months post-treatment. But after that, I slowly made the transition. My mouth was too sore, too phlegm-y and it was just too hard. If he's getting the calories he needs through the PEG, is drinking water and weight loss isn't a problem, then I'm thinking he's going to take whatever time he needs to get back on the swallowing horse.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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