Hi all
Talk about timely. I just got off the phone with Bob who three weeks out from radiation and back at work. The last few days have been very rough for him. He finally admitted just now that he needs to get "into a better space" mentally. He is healing amazingly quickly and able to eat again. But he is so disturbed by the taste issues. Everything he used to like tastes wrong, or doesn't taste at all. He is edgy and I believe a little depressed. It helps to hear that all of this is to be expected. Besides medication does anyone have suggestions as to how to help him cope with the after treatment blues. Thanks Denise


Caregiver Husband Bob SCC tongue t2nomo Partial Glosectomy/neck disection 6/04 rad ending 9/23/04
Osteoradio-necrosis of the Mandible (ONJ) DX 6/09 Surgery 7/2/09 mandible resection/ several teeth extracted/ neck dissection NO FLAP and aggressive antibiotic therapy.