 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Don, Target brand sports sunscreen has shown to last the longest and is the best value. You can catch them 2 in a pack even. I have one in my car always. Better safe than sorry. I also wear a hat that covers from the head down the back of the neck if I am out in the sun more than a couple of hours.
If you think about the damage to sensory nerves near the surface, as well as sweat and oil glands, it would make sense during treatment and for some amount of treatment. Just remember some damage we don't see.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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