Congrats on getting thru week 1. I also didn't mind the mask. The techies also let me bring in my own Cd for the 20 minute treatments.( I chose the soundtrack from Xanadu - "You've got to believe we are magic" and "I'm alive". Two of my favorite inspirationals) Anyway, if she experiences nausea, don't just assume it's always the chemo. I also had the fenytol patch and, bless my sister, she figured out that my vomiting was the patch and not the chemo. I was normal within hours of removing the patch. We replaced it with some heavy duty liquid painkiller via the tube. Had to play around with it to find the right one for me but they are "out there".


Pat - 62 yr. old -DX 8/29/09 SCC stage III floor of mouth
Lower teeth& bone removed
Port& Peg
Cisplatin x3; Rad 35 - ended 12/21/09
Fox Chase 2nd opinion-mandibulectomy; tracheotomy; left neck dissection; jaw reconstruction 5/13/10; flap failed;new flap 7/13/10; lipo January 2011