 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Good diet, a rigorous and consistent exercise program, very minimal sedentary lifestyle (including work), light massage, stretching the entire body first thing in the morning and last thing in the day. This will minimize pain, maintain maximum range of motion and give you the longest and most comfortable life. It's the same thing doctors have been saying for decades. The radiation damage is the same thing that occurs as we age, only accelerated. We get too busy or too lazy as time goes by and it catches up.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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