Is it worth it ?? For me the answer is no!
I went through 7 weeks of chemo/ rad that ended almost 5 weeks ago. I still feel like crap every day, have no saliva, am still nauseated half the damn time, eating through a tube in my stomach and have no energy. Then to top it off my fiancee who spent so much time helping and worrying over me suffered a breakdown and moved back to her home and is under the care of a professional. Every plan we made for the future is gone and I'm alone. This disease sucks pure and simple and sucks the life out of you. I'm supposed to have a post treatment PET scan in 8 weeks and it may as well be clear because this is the end of treatments for me regardless. I've already told my kids that my quality of life is worth more than the price i've paid and if I had it to do again I wouldn't. I'm absolutely sure many of you fine folks will not understand but the price for me wasn't worth it.
I'm done in.

Last edited by Jack Snodgrass; 04-19-2012 04:38 PM.

64 YO M Non Smoker ,light drinker Dx 11/11 SCC Stg IV BOT/L
Tx Carboplatin & Docetaxel weekly and Rad daily X 7 weeks
PEG in 2/12 out 6/12