David, from what I understand the chemo doctor has yet to get approval for the concoction she wants to give me, so I don't know what it is yet. I am trying to eat calories like mad, but I had to get my teeth pulled so it is hard to eat anything except ice cream. I look like a monster because the shots the dentist gave me made big black and blue marks on my face and my neck dissection looks like someone tried to decapitate me.

I love hearing from people who had the same treatment I am going to have and lived to talk about it - lol. I really am usually quite brave for surgeries and I'm a fast healer, but this new stuff and the bolted head to a table ordeal is just horrifying.

I also sleep on my stomach. Will the PEG mess that up? I can't sleep any other way. OH BOY what a revolting development this is. (Anyone old enough to remember that phrase?)


BOT-SCC Partial glossectomy 7/16/09.
Stage IV, Rt ND 10/2/09.
Teeth out 11/5/09.
Port/peg in, 11/20/09.
7 wks rad & chemo, end 1/22/10
lung, colon biopsies 1/9/11 - both cancer
colon resect surg 1/10/11
Folfox + Avastin - discontinued 6/11
lung surgery 3/13/12, 5/1/12
mets to liver and bones
passed away 9/4/13