 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Ward, please feel free to post! We are here to help each other. What you go thru and write about could be exactly what another patient is going thru and can help hundreds of others.
I cant remember seeing any patient who has been given a "cancer free" diagnosis on their first check up after rads/chemo. I would highly doubt any physician would say that this early after finishing rads. The fear of a recurrence is something we all have. In time, this fear does slightly lessen but it still hangs around in the back of our minds for a long, long time.
Hang in there. We all know where you are coming from, we've been there too.
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  | 
