| "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | What a great friend you are, CarolinaGal! Here's one thought, invite your best friend out for lunch or movie or whatever she likes to do, or offer to sit with her husband so she can take some time off for herself. I suspect everyone is focusing on the patient but don't forget that the caregiver needs a cheering section too.
- Margaret
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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