Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Im so glad you found all the responses helpful. Since your first post, you are part of our online family. We will help get you both thru this (even if your husband is stubborn). Hang in there and push him to do whats best for your whole family. Im sure this will bring conflict but if you dont make him face reality then he wont be around to have these choices to make. Thats something he must come to terms with, oral cancer is a very serious life threatening disease that will progress weather he acknowledges its existence or not. Im sure he will put up resistance to your suggestions but you must push him for his own good. Its better to have an angry husband than one who isnt here. Maybe he needs to hear that to snap him out of his fog?
Im hoping a biopsy gets done quickly so you will know what you are dealing with and can get moving on taking care of it. Even more Im hoping its not cancer so you dont have to go thru everything again.
Please keep posting, we understand and have your back.
PS... Im not aware of any herbs that have been scientifically proven to eliminate oral cancer. I agree with you that something isnt right when the doc doesnt even look at in your husbands mouth but recommends a cure. Sounds to me like this is one for Quackwatch. 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 |