Well we do have to keep trying in order to find out when we are ready Pete.

I saw the dietitian today and I gained 2 lbs - I am now the 98 lb weakling!!

But since all of my doctors are in the same place she had access to my esophogram results. They do say that he saw constriction that could be attributed to scar tissue or the effects of radiation and then that I aspirated and the test was stopped. So I feel better that at least we found out what I had the test done for in the first place, plus a little more.

I am waiting to hear from my ENT to see if we want to schedule a procedure to open it up now or wait until the PT is finished on my neck to see if that doesn't help it also. I wonder if the PT for my neck will ever be finished? It almost seems to me that it will need continued stretching and light massage or it will just keep tightening up. I must ask her this too.

Patty


48
SCC Floor of Mouth 7/06
9/06 Surgery, bilateral neck dissection, 58 nodes clear PT2pN0pMx
35 rad 2006
Recurred 6/08, 1 Carboplatin, 1 Cisplatin
Surgery 9/08 - Total glossectomy, free flap from pectoral muscle, left mandible replaced using fibula
35 IMRT & Erbitux 11/08
4/15/09 recurrence
6/1/09 passed away, rest in peace