 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 618 | Wow Steve,
It seems like only yesterday when you started this thread and voiced openly a dilemma many of us have battled with privately.
What looks like an impossible road ahead when you�re faced with traveling it after lots of previous treatment has a tendency to look quite trivial in hindsight after it�s all done.
It was the hindsight most of us were using to speak to you in favor of continuing but that is not very evident when you�re the patient and looking at even one more day of a treatment that feels like it will kill you before the cancer does. And then to top that off, the doctors spell out any number of possible side effects that could make your life miserable for the foreseeable future.
You made a very brave decision in the face of a very tough set of circumstances. I'm proud of you.
Best of luck moving forward.
Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR
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