dan,

i'm so sorry that these posts have made you apprehensive. your experience sounds completely different from my sister's. she has never been on good terms with any medical stuff, so probably her feelings about the treatment add to the complexity of the side effects (like ed, i guess). more importantly, she didn't get a chance to regain some of her strength and recover from the surgery+radiation before a pretty aggressive recurrence necessitated the chemo. and she's taking very strong drug combination (cisplatine, dexoteris, 5fuv) which is probably why she's being knocked out so badly. latest update: she was feeling a bit better today and was able to feed a little and keep it down. she's trying and so are we. please keep up your spirit.

gita

sister diagnosed 11/03 SCC maxilla keratenizing stg IV T1N1Mx; 4-7 positive lymph nodes; dissection 12/03 left upper pallette removd; radiaton left side 35 sessions 2/04-4/04; recurrence same side 4/04; chemo began 5/04 incl cisplatine, 5fu, taxotere