 "OCF Down Under, Kiwi" "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 644 Likes: 1 | Hello, Kimmer. This is a good place to vent. It's also a good place to get empathy not sympathy - we can understand how hard it is for you and for your husband. Lots of people here are caregivers. From the studies I've read, they are often more stressed than the patient. And chemoradiation is very very hard on the body. You get over it but at the time it consumes everything.
Your husband's medical team should refer you both to some sort of therapy. I strongly believe that most of us need that. The Cancer Society helped me a lot.
Best wishes
1996, ovarian cancer surgery + cisplatin and taxol.
September, 2007, SCC of left lateral tongue. Excision.
October, 2009 recurrence in scar tissue, T1NOMO. Free flap surgery from left wrist - neck dissection. 63 year old New Zealander. No chemo, no RT.
February, 2014. New primary in left buccal mucosa. Marginal mandibulectomy, neck dissection, right arm free forearm flap. T1N0M0 but third occurrence and some areas of concern: RT started 8 April and finished 19 May.
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