OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 90 | Thank you Anne-Marie. Just your kind words made me feel a little better.
He surely deserves some type of good news. Knowing he will never eat or drink again was something none of us were prepared for. He just can not accept it.
Now this aspiration pneumonia.....we can not figure out what he aspirated on......so hard to fix if you do not know what caused it in the first place.
Caregiver to Father:Stage III unknown primary; modified left side neck dissection 2/2006; 8 wk trmts of Erbitux 3/2006 with-37 radition treatments; 11.2010; biopsy of base of tongue results questionable. 9.2013 tumor on left side of tongue; squamous cell cancer. 10.2.2013 Hemiglossectomy(1/2 tongue removed) with reconstruct tongue using left thigh tissue;surgery included IORT.
25 additional IMRT radiation trtmts & 5 wks/chemo. Carbo & Taxol combo.NPO;100% PEG depend;aspiration pneumonia 3/2014
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