 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | Sometime during my 3rd week post Tx I woke up one morning and I just felt a tad better. Kinda like the day you wake up after 2 weeks of a bad cold and you just know the cold is finally going away. It's not like I felt great but I could just tell I had turned the corner. I called it my walking out of that tunnel monent. For me and most it's not all good days that follow as some days you will think your just as "sick" as you were at the end of Tx but slowly over the next several months those bad days will all but dissappear. Patience is the word you need to remember for the next couple of years while your body recovers. Also try and consume tons of calories and water until you start to gain weight again.
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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