| "OCF Canuck, across the pond" Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 153 | Hey everybody, Happy New Year (has a special meaning to it, doesn't it?), and thanks for all of the support. Sorry to be so slow to get back.
Yes, I think things are very very slowly improving. Physically I can't complain, really. Yeah, dry mouth, but not completely, and I *can* eat most things now, with a chaser. Numb feet is stable at least, and maybe improving. Digestion and sleep even seem slightly better lately. But vision is "off" a bit. Old age? Can't win them all.
As for the head space, I half suspect I might be in this funk regardless of having had cancer. I'm in a huge strange and notoriously unfriendly city (London) far from family and friends and without work. Would freak out the best of us, I think. And it's winter. And the food is British!
But, now that we're through the Season, I'm starting to focus on networking and looking for work, and I already have a few meetings set up, and some ideas are trickling in. Is it too soon? Hard to say. My memory isn't what it was, but exercising the mind will probably help with that, too.
Somewhere on here recently I read someone's statement that nine months after treatment they re-found their enthusiasm (I think for a sporting activity). I'm hoping for a similar return of enthusiasm and optimism! I'm just past seven months since my radiation/chemo.
Cheers,
-Seth
47 yr old male non-smoker, social drinker, fit. Jan'10, Stg3 rt tonsil+rt neck SCC, HPV+, rad+chmo Vancouver Cda. 2yr clear Apr'12 London UK. Apr'13 mets recur to lymph btw left lung & aorta, 3x Cisplatin+5FUchemo+20 rad, was all clear but 6-mo PET-CT shows mets to pleura around left lung, participating in St 1 trial of GDC-0980. GDC lost effect and ended July'14, bad atrial fibrillation requiring hospitalisation, start more standard chemo 10 Sep 2014. Sadly has passed away, notified Jan 2015.
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