Sandy,

Sorry to hear about the diagnosis. Your reaction is very normal. I called it the "fight or flight" feeling and my gut was telling me to run away and I had nowhere to run to.

So now you are left with the fight side. You have to make that transition and know you have a good chance of beating this thing.

T1 is good (small), how did they diagnose the N2. Did you get a PET scan, an MRI or a CT scan? or did your doctor just feel the nodes in your neck?

You are now officialy allowed to up the Prozac dosage. My GP cut me a Zantec prescription just after I was diagnosed.


Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR