Amy:

Your husband's Dx and Tx regimen sounds like a carbon copy of mine. I was Dx in April this year and began rad and chemo last week of May. Completed Tx end of July and had first CT scan in early september that was clear. Just had second CT last week and clear again! I had the neck dissection with removal of large mass of nodes and tissue and left with a 3" incision on 9/20 and all was clear! No real problems with neck at all. Incision was glued and it's hardly visible already. The immediate area is still numb and my ENT says may stay that way up to a year.

The entire ordeal is trying for the entire family but you will survive and be stronger for it by time it's over. If like me, the PEG tube was perhaps the overall worst thing to deal with. Husband needs to keep swallowing as much as possible during Tx to keep things working.

Bill D.