Thanx for the help regarding post treatment issues Christine. Just regarding the free flap from the thigh, it's healed well, a bit red around the area and still sensitive. Regarding memory loss.... I was only under for the duration of surgery. My wife does tell me that they battled to keep my pain under control(I was using morphine prior to op and had become immune to it). They sedated me for the first night. I was in icu for 3 days and 4 days in a general ward. The worst part was that my son was not allowed to visit me due to his age......I would not have wanted to visit me either for the way I looked. I laugh at it now but I was scary.
As far as chemotherapy and radiation go.....when I was first diagnosed we did not know half as much as we know now. I just accepted the fact that I had cancer and that they were going to remove it surgically. Didn't ask questions or get a second opinion. I thought I would be cured after the treatment, little did I know. I only found out that chemo/rad worked best together the second time around. I do have questions for the surgeons and my oncologist here in Cape town regarding my first treatment. Wow to think that at the beginning of the year we were told that I would never survive a second surgery