Welcome to OCF, Charlie! Congrats on finishing your treatments and becoming cancer free! Seems like we all suffer one way or another getting thru OC. You will bounce back, it just takes time. Next year this time you will be so much better than you are now. It can take up to 2 years for a patient to fully recover from treatments. I also miss my old life but I have settled into a new normal for me and it works ok. Hope you find your new normal soon.


Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile