My recovery is ups and downs like they all are, thanks for asking. I think I am doing very well. My PEG was taken out last week so I am eating all on my own again. I have had my first post RAD PET/CT scan and the docs didn't see any C.
I have family here for support Mom, Dad, Step-Mom, and a sister all live within 30 miles of me. I usually had a family member stay with me during chemo week and my Mom would stay occasionally through treatment, she stayed 3 days my last week of RAD, I was weak and needed the help to get to appointments. Due to all of us underestimating the recovery process she went to her vacation home in Alaska the week after I finished my RAD, the next month was the hardest but I got through. It took me a while to admit I was having a hard time and for my Mom to book a flight back but she came back Aug 3rd, a little over two months after I finished treatment and that was the week everything turned around for me and I started feeling better. I didn't always have people here with me during treatment but I always had family and friends just a phone call away.


AGE 38 10-2012 thru 3-2012 swollen lymph node,painful jaw and ear,2 antibiotics,X-ray,CAT scan,needle biopsy,scope, no answers
3-4-13 tonsillectomy and selective neck dissection, DX R tonsil SCC,METS to 1 lymph node,BOT,HPV+, stage IV
TX 35 RAD,3 chemo cisplatin/Taxol started 4-8-13
rad end 5-29-13