Hello Nick - I know you wanted to finish strong. Don't look on this setback at the end as a failure, you had a near perfect think going, LOTS of people would gladly trade places with you.

My 5 weeks of treatment went very well, only a little sunburn on side of neck. But the guy who had the treatment slot before me got burned up so bad he had to stop in the middle of treatment twice so he could heal up.

Then the mucositis arrived, it was brutal, so bad I would have to use lidocaine in the middle of a meal just to finish the meal. I survived on liquid protein shakes.

You will get there, just keep fighting day by day. Improvement probably won't be linear, some days you improve a lot, others you seemingly go backwards.

take care

Tony (just passed 5 years post treatment)

Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)

09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good