Every pain med has made my stomach turn. I'm only using the feeding tube and drinking a couple of Ensure shakes and some water. That's about all I can tolerate. No pain med has made the throat feel good so I'm not even bothering. It only hurts when I swallow, which is that awful constricted feeling more so than pain. Seriously, the nausea that accompanies Percocet, Vicodin, or Morphine is just not worth the little to no relief I get from the pain killer. I am diligently swishing with the rinse and I have a rinse for thrush.

I know I'm not the first to say this and I certainly will not be the last but this is pretty terrible. I'm known to curse so just know that there are many other words I'm leaving out from this post.

10/2/12 Surgery Dx Stage II SCC RLT
11/12/12 Further tongue resec and SND. 3 of 22 lymph + SCC Stage IVa
11/22/12 Hospitalized for infection incision at neck
12/5/13 PET scan tumor at BOT
12/26/12-2/27/13 RT and Cisplatin
4/1/13-5/17/13 3 rounds of Cisplatin, Taxotere and 5-FU
7/19/13 Pet Scan possible recurrence
8/23/13 2nd op at MSKCC, CT Scan
8/31/13 MRI. Both show sizeable mass
9/11/13 CT-guided needle BX + SCC
10/1/13 Erbitux, Cisplatin and Taxotere
2/14/14 Passed away