ACTUALLY STEPHENS TUBE SITE JUST HAD AN ABCESS BUMP NEXT TO IT. NEVER ANY GOO COMING OUT THAT WOULD REQUIRE GAUZE. I CLEAN AROUND HUS TUBE SITE WITH A Q TIP AND HYDROGEN PEROXIDE EVERY SO OFTEN. HIS ENT SAID GAUZE WASN'T NECESSARY. LET THE AIR GET TO IT.
OBVIOUSLY SWISH AND SWALLOW MUST MEAN THAT THE SWISH PART HELPS AND THE SWALLOW OR IT WOULD BE A SWISH AND SPIT. SO HIND SIGHT MY RO MUST BE RIGHT, JUST INGESTING IT MUST DO SOMETHING, ALTHOUGH SWISHING AND SWALLOWIMG WOULD GIVE OPTIMAL RESULTS.
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, HAS ANYONE HAD AN ABNORMAL EKG POST TX. COULD THIS BE DUE TO RADIATION? THEY DIDN'T FIND FLUID BUT SAID IT WAS NOT NORMAL FOR A 47 YEAR OLD MAN... WE WERE IN THE ER TODAY AND THEY TOLD US THAT STEPHENS EKG DIDNT LOOK NORMAL...ANYONE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?


Kerry/wife of stephenm
StageIV - Base of Tongue T4N0M0
XRT x42 / Taxol and Carboplatin x4
Tx. Finished 5/08/06