Senior Member (100+ posts)    Joined:  Jun 2009  Posts: 138  |    Oh it's so hard to keep from being furious that life as before is over and it doesn't seem in my case that it will ever get better.  I am used to healing very fast.  I broke my shoulder in a bunch of places and had metal and nine screws put in, but I healed up.  I don't seem to be healing from cancer surgery and radiation.  I have mouth pain all day every day and I'm just sick of it.  I had to have another biopsy a couple weeks ago so that put another big hole in my tongue to start over healing.  I am so sick of watching other people gobble food and enjoy it so much.  I don't even want to go in a restaurant any more, and of course that's where everyone wants to meet.  I hear the audience gasp when Michael Douglas says he has stage IV cancer and I am reminded again what a bad position I'm in.  I'm on Zoloft but I am still really depressed with this way of "living" -- seems just to never improve.        
BOT-SCC  Partial glossectomy 7/16/09.   Stage IV, Rt ND 10/2/09.  Teeth out 11/5/09.   Port/peg in, 11/20/09. 7 wks rad & chemo, end 1/22/10 lung, colon biopsies 1/9/11 - both cancer colon resect surg 1/10/11 Folfox + Avastin - discontinued 6/11 lung surgery 3/13/12, 5/1/12 mets to liver and bones passed away 9/4/13
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