 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | It sounds like you will have your hands full. I hope she appreciates what you are doing to help her.
Please encourage her to stop smoking immediately. No sense in making this any harder than it has to be. If she continues to smoke or use tobacco products then a recurrence is likely. Im hoping she will be positive and realize she must quit for her own survival.
In my previous post on this thread I gave a list of top cancer centers. Please start making some calls to see where she can get in to get this taken care of.
Best wishes!!!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
