"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 618 | Deb,
At Jim's stage I was still happy to have a good day when I could get one. It's still early in the healing process so I would not be discouraged when a bad day hits.
They will become less and less frequent as he moves on out from the hard hits his body just took. As much as we would like to rush it and get a normal life back, it just takes time.
I can say that somewhere about 4-5 months out I was feeling much more alive and feeling good about being active. I'm 7 months out now and I do have many annoyances from my treatment but small stuff relative to how I felt at two months.
I don't think this is ever over, but it should start getting easier to deal with soon.
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
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