Welcome Donald. It sounds like you have a great team in place and are ready for the next step which is for treatment to start. Once that happens, I think you will find your anxiety level drops as you will then be actively engaged in DOING SOMETHING about fighting the beast.

In the meantime, remember that cancer is a thief. It wants to steal the days before your treatment as well as many others. Don't let it - it already gets far too many of our days through treatments, surgeries and recovery. Do not let it have any through worry and anxiety!!

Hang in there - you're going to do great with chemo/rad. Beware of trying to picture how you are going to handle these things - we are all very diffferent and you could have a completely opposite experience.

Hope to hear more from you.

Donna


Donna,69, SCC L Tongue T2N1MO Stg IV 4/04 w/partial gloss;32 radtx; T2N2M0 Stg IV; R tongue-2nd partial gloss w/graft 10/07; 30 radtx/2 cispl 2/08. 3rd Oral Cancer surgery 1/22 - Stage 1. 2022 surgery eliminated swallowing and bottom left jaw. Now a “Tubie for Life”.no food envy - Thank God! Surviving isn't easy!!!! .Proudly Canadian - YES, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS WONDERFUL! (Not perfect but definitely WONDERFUL)