Hi People,

Still battling along, had a whack this week, lots of fatigue and its starting to lift but felt steamrollered - and sleep pattern gone completely wonky. Bigger chin! Doing the throat and neck exercises, THEY WORK!

Hey Bart, impressed you are working out. Good to hear you hanging tough and enduring - that's what most of this is, endurance testing I think. If one can shoulder discomfort and has a mind set not to worry to much about something that has an end in sight then it can be done.

PEG out next week, that will make me feel less 'sick', never needed it. I lost 20% of my weight but had gone overweight before the start. Had my second monthly check last week, all clear, end of Feb will be six months from operation without detectable disease but elected for precautionary chemo and rads and don't want to go back again. I have been put on six weekly checks now. Early days but a six month mark is encouraging if not too much to get carried away with...

Still a bit sore and getting left side back to work chewing. It feels notably strange!

All the best to you all and will check in soon.

John


Life long none smoker, social drinker. Age 46
25 July positive node. Primary in left tonsil.
Neck Disection 27 Aug 20+ nodes removed, bilateral tonsillectomy.
Tonsil primary, other mouth, throat, tongue biopsies showed clear. Node breached but no evidence of spread in surrounding tissues or any other nodes.
T2N2aM0
Wisdom Teeth (all 4) removed mid Sep and Peg fitted first week Oct.
Started six weeks, 30 rads, six chemos total, chemo on Mondays and rads Mon to Fri on Oct 14th.