Thanks Maureen for responding, I am glad at least someone is out there,
Happy New Year.
I had my port in but it's not for the pain meds, it's for the chemo drugs. I haven't a lot of veins left they can use.

The pain from the port balanced out the pain from the neck dissection but the port pain went away.

There are three days left before I start chemo and I've taken up a lot of bad habits eating wise but those will fanish when I give it all up, sadly.

I am not in counseling of any kind, nor do I have a nurse. Is is really that horrible? Should I ask for this?





HPV+ P16 positive squamous cell carcinoma

Oct 2014 found neck node lumps
Went to Oncologist (TNBC)
Ultrasound
2 CT Scans - body/head and neck
Needle & core biopsy
Pet Scan
Biopsy to find primary w/ anesthesia - failed
Second Opinion found primary & biopsied
Biopsy confirmed HPV+ P16 Squamous cell carcinoma
Radical Neck Dissection 11/22/2014
32 lymph nodes removed - 3 positive
Ported 12/29/14
Chemo and rads to start January 5, 2015
cisplatin weekly 40 mg/m2
Rads M-F for 7 weeks