Welcome to the best club nobody wants to join. I'm no doctor, but my guess is the trifecta surgery, rads, with chemo. All three can be brutal on the body, the good news, being HPV pos means you have a good chance of kicking this in the but.

However the next 4-5 months are no picnic. Go a head and tell the boys your situation. I told mine. Hopefully your boys can help out around the house, yard, garage. I was so weak when I was deep in treatment, that taking out the garbage was an event. Get as much of this stuff done now.

Hopefully next year you will be able to look back on it as just a rough summer and that's all. Mine was just a rough winter.

Good luck and post often. It really helps you and everyone else on the boards.


Hockey Dad
43, No smoke, Small BOT HPV+16
8/30/12 Biopsy found SCC in Lymph node (removed)
9/19 DX 4a T1N2aM0
10/1 TX 2x Cisplatin 35 IMRT 70 gry (Done 11/15)
PEG tube in 11/7. Out 1/4, Back at work 2/4/13
PET 2/13 Clear, 10/16 all Scopes Clear, 4/14 Chest X-ray Clear, 5/14 Abdominal ultrasound Clear, 8 yrs clean!!!