Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | Is there any special massage for lymphedema that he can be doing? Even though my surgery was much less invasive, when I went in for speech and OT, they gave me massage techniques for both the scar tissue and the swelling / fluid stoppage. It helps a lot with drainage (who knew our sinuses relied on our necks so much???). It's worth asking.
Surgery 5/31/13 Tongue lesion, right side SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated T1N0 based on biopsy and scan Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes 12/2/13 follow-up with concerns 12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned 1/8/14 Port installed PEG installed Chemo and rads 2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June 2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia Fall 2017: HBOT Jan 18: oral surgery
|