Thank you everyone for you words of support. I made it through that horrible day. I did have some anti nausea meds, I took more as you all recommended, I had an extra one. I didn't vomit.

I had fluids at the hospital yesterday and am feeling better. I ate a fish stick on Sunday night and had a little beef stew yesterday so I feel I have turned a corner. Went for a walk in the snow on Sunday too.

This mantra of "It's going to get better", I repeat that to myself a lot. Especially on those days I was gripping the towel bar in pain after hacking up those blood balls in the middle of the night. I can open my mouth now without ripping open a blister and bleeding, that's progress too.

I am going to go to Bjork opening tonight. Resting all day so I can make it.



HPV+ P16 positive squamous cell carcinoma

Oct 2014 found neck node lumps
Went to Oncologist (TNBC)
Ultrasound
2 CT Scans - body/head and neck
Needle & core biopsy
Pet Scan
Biopsy to find primary w/ anesthesia - failed
Second Opinion found primary & biopsied
Biopsy confirmed HPV+ P16 Squamous cell carcinoma
Radical Neck Dissection 11/22/2014
32 lymph nodes removed - 3 positive
Ported 12/29/14
Chemo and rads to start January 5, 2015
cisplatin weekly 40 mg/m2
Rads M-F for 7 weeks