I felt the same when Steve's treatment started and all the way through it. Still to this day, almost 6 months (can you believe 6 months already) since treatment ended I still feel anxious, nauseas, you name it. Always worse before any doctor's appointments.

Glad you have found this site. There is some great information on here and plenty of wonderful people who will show you that what you are feeling is normal, as we've all been there.

Personally from a carer's perspective. I think both carer and patient are pretty crap. Both bring with it there horrors and there pains. Not having been a patient I can't say for sure but from everything I've seen over the last 10 months it doesn't look to wonderful. But also from what I personally have been through over this time, it certainly wasn't a bed of roses. To me, both Steve and I have cancer. Just each one of us has a different part to play in kicking it's butt.


Wife to Steve 43. DX 5 May 09. T4N2MO SCC tongue, floor of mouth, lymph nodes & jaw bone
No surgery
Teeth removed 06/07/2009
radiation 13/07/2009 x 7wks
chemo 15/07/2009 x 3 Cisplatin
last TX 28/08/2009
25/11/2009 PET-lymph node activity.
08/01/2010 CT Scan-ALL CLEAR
03/03/2010-Peg removed
01/2013 left side of Jaw removed and replaced with pectoral flap.
23/12/2020 scan show lesion in tongue
01/2021 SCC stage 3 base of tongue diagnosed
01/03/2021 chemotherapy started.