 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 559 Likes: 1 | Congrats on completion of this milestone.
Like Christine said above you've still got a ways to go. Recovery can seem as trying and difficult as treatment. The first seven weeks may seem pretty rough, literally as if you were still in treatment. Weight loss can still continue (I lost 10 more pounds after treatment ended). Food taste will be SLOW to come back (and once it comes back it may go away again for awhile). Mucositis and ropey mucous and thrush and uncomfortable or dry sinuses, those are all just part of the game.
I don't want to be the bearer of bad tiding on this happy day of treatment completion; just don't get your hopes up that from here on out it's just a walk in the park. You will get there, but the operative word is "slowly" (and sometimes you'll even feel you're going backwards).
Now, go out and try to be happy.
Tony
Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)
09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good
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