NEW TO THIS FORUM - 08-07-2007 11:16 AM
I'm new to this forum just wanted to post my experience with stage III Tonsil cancer...
Dianosised 9/25/2001...(age 52)Radical neck dissection chemo and radiation..Like everyone,I suffered through all the treatments and their side effects..Doing okay so far,still have dry mouth and stiff neck..Can eat well as long as itisn't dry stuff...My largest problem with the treatments was doing chemo and radiation concurrently.Te combined toxicity nearly killed me and was rushed to the hospital an kept in total isolation for 7 days,and it delayed all treatments for over 2 weeks which very very much upset my Rad. Oncologist since he somehow didn't know I was doing both treatments on the same days..Anyway after hospital stay only did radiation there after....Against everyones advice I refused the PEG..lost 60 lbs..nearly 6 years later I gained it all back....One point I would like to make to all is the implanting of a needle port and catheter underneath the skin on the upper part of my chest for chemo treatments...about 5 inches of the caheter broke loose and is now stuck in the two right chambers of my heart...They tried to remove it but could not,now only way to get it out is open heart surgery which I have opted not to do..Long term consequences of leaving it they cannot tell me...
Dianosised 9/25/2001...(age 52)Radical neck dissection chemo and radiation..Like everyone,I suffered through all the treatments and their side effects..Doing okay so far,still have dry mouth and stiff neck..Can eat well as long as itisn't dry stuff...My largest problem with the treatments was doing chemo and radiation concurrently.Te combined toxicity nearly killed me and was rushed to the hospital an kept in total isolation for 7 days,and it delayed all treatments for over 2 weeks which very very much upset my Rad. Oncologist since he somehow didn't know I was doing both treatments on the same days..Anyway after hospital stay only did radiation there after....Against everyones advice I refused the PEG..lost 60 lbs..nearly 6 years later I gained it all back....One point I would like to make to all is the implanting of a needle port and catheter underneath the skin on the upper part of my chest for chemo treatments...about 5 inches of the caheter broke loose and is now stuck in the two right chambers of my heart...They tried to remove it but could not,now only way to get it out is open heart surgery which I have opted not to do..Long term consequences of leaving it they cannot tell me...
