Thank you everyone for such supporting and helpful comments. It certainly feels like second family here.

Hmm, from couple of your comments, it certainly sounds like I am using too much Silvadene. I may have misunderstood a nurse who told me to use enough to completely cover the skin without any skin showing through. I am seeing my RO tomorrow, so I will double check on that. I will also ask about Domeboro. At this point, the two or so hours I have to spend cream free from its removal till the end of rads are really, really bad pain wise.

Christine thank you for all the tips, especially the final one. I am afraid I already messed up my sheets with the cream, but I started applying the gauze pad as soon as I read your advice.

Maria, I did something similar, and bought a couple of very cheap scoop neck t-shirts. I do not mind if I get cream on them at all.
No worries about crying and driving,I do not drive to begin with. Even if I did, I wouldn't be allowed to with the meds I am on.

I also think I have discovered a brand new side effect of the rads, called "dropping stuff and spilling various solutions everywhere" smile Joke aside, I am constantly spilling and dropping things, including food and medications, at least once a day. My brand new laptop and a liquid oxy have had a couple of close encounters, which freaked me out. Luckily my laptop survived. I hope this is due to the meds and not to some strange thing happening in my brain.

And, finally, only three treatments left!


Last edited by Ambra; 12-04-2013 07:37 PM.

36, female, left tonsil HPV+ SCC, T2N1
8/28/13 SCC in left tonsil
9/12/13 surgery:TORS and selective neck dissection (levels II-IV), 23 nodes removed
9/18/13 post surgery biopsy: 2mm clear margins, a 7mm lymph node positive in level IV, no ECL
10/28/13 rad begins, 30 treatments, tomotherapy
12/09/13 radiation ends!
2/10/14 papillary thyroid cancer
2/26/14 PET shows clear neck other than thyroid cancer, but with high uptake in an ovarian cyst
2/27/14 thyroidectomy
3/5/14 pelvic ultrasound