You are right. I'm trying. smile I feel better about it today than I did before the scan. Whatever will be, will be, I'll deal with it.

I had PET+CT w/contrast. Hopefully, all my funky-looking sensitive gums is just unhealed radiation damage, and nothing else.

I'll find out in a week.


38 yo@dx, female, non-smoker, non-drinker, SCC right lateral tongue. T2N2aMx stage IVa; 1/20/09 bilateral neck dissection, hemiglossectomy, micromets in 2 right nodes, left all clear. 33xIMRT + 3 cisplatins. Tx completed 5/08/09. PET scan 7/29/09 clear, 5/26/10 clear, chest x-ray 5/23/11 clear