Jim & Deb,

You may have already heard this but load up on eating while you still can. It will be a bit before he can't taste much, and the chemo may make him not want to eat, but eat what he likes, and lots of it, now.

Other than that: this is a one-day at a time process. I found the best thing to do was to come here often. I was never surprised by what was happening to me in treatment because I had seen it all discussed here beforehand.

Use the search bar on the upper right hand of this page to see posts about almost any subject here and go to the OCF home page for loads of additional information.

So my first day advice; load up on food and information.

Kelly


Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR