 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Im so sorry to be the one who gives you unpleasant news!!!! Your body has been thru heck and it takes time to recover. Surgery swelling and your body's adjustment to it can take a full year. It takes the body one month for every week of rads to recover. Its mostly the sense of taste that takes the longest to get back to normal. Most patients will be doing so much better about 4-6 months post rads. Please understand everyone is different and will do things at their own pace. It just takes time to get better from everything you have been thru.
After I went thru rads w/ chemo I returned to my office job part time 6 weeks after treatments. It was really hard but I was able to eventually handle all aspects of my job and work full time around 4 months post rads.
You will get there, it just takes more time than any of us like.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
