Hi all,
We're still here, though things have been very bad.
Our current Cancer has done all they could and has sent us to a new place an hour 15 minutes away.
Doug had a lung biopsy today to determine if the original cancer has metastasized there or if we are a fighting a completely different cancer.
Either way they aren't waiting and we are starting a different chemo regimen at the new CC tomorrow morning.
This Dr like the 3 before her said there isn't any hope, but to try chemo to see if it can reduce the tumor to reduce the pain.

He is in so very much pain now it's just awful. We've tried the Fentanyl Patches and the only thing it did was make him sick, so we are back to Percocet, Morphine and Methadone and he's still in such terrible pain.

I've tried again to talk him into Hospice, but he just isn't ready.
I don't know what else I can do except to be here for him as I always am.

Still scared, still lonely and oh so tired.


Cheryl
1st post under(Introduce Yourself Re:I've waited too long)
Caregiver to Doug
Dx 8/31/10
Stage 4 HPV(?) SCC Tonsil, Tongue, Jaw and Lymph-nodes
98% Glossectomy
Bilateral Neck Dissection x 2
Trach and PEG indefinitely
Palliative weekly Chemo
Carboplatin-Pemetrexed-Erbitux