 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 939 | Karen,
Good for you to find the strength to do this..its so very hard to step up and question...go against the tide..etc. You do feel as though you are then labeled as a troublemaker and have less of a repore with the staff but so be it.
And here we go again - new facility, new doctors, new nurses and aides and my mother who can't remember where the call button is or how to turn on her light or TV....SO HARD!
Deb..caregiver to husband, age 63 at diagnosis, former smoker who quit in 1997.
DIAGNOSIS: 6/26/07 SCC right tonsil/BOT T4N0M0
TREATMENT START: 8/9/07 cisplatin/taxol X 7..IMRT twice daily X 31.5.
TREATMENT END: 10/1/07
PEG OUT: 1/08
PORT OUT: 4/09
FOLLOWUP: Now only annual exams. ALL CLEAR!
Passed away 1/7/17 RIP Bill
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