OP Platinum Member (300+ posts) Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 346 Likes: 3 | Well. Guess where I am.
I fell Sunday night and broke my hip. Spent all night and most of Monday in the ER, awaiting a room and surgery ... finally got a room Monday night and surgery Tuesday morning.
Wasn't sure what forum to post this, but I do think it fits under long-term quality of life. All the treatments, stress, etc. have taken a toll on my body, leaving me more susceptible to other things, And then I had a bad reaction to the Cipro antibiotic (the muscle and tendon pain issue), which led me to being sore and loose--jointed, which probably contributed to the ease of hurting myself. (Though mostly it's because I'm a klutz who was wearing slippery socks on a wood floor, sigh.)
On the plus side, I'm a LOT better at navigating hospitals and asking for what I need than I used to be. Something to be said for experience! LOL. It's been eye-opening.
Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers, if you have a spare minute, This ouches pretty fierce.
Oh, and anybody else on here deal with low blood pressure? It's becoming a problem for me and was apparently an issue even in surgery, which was a first. They are getting concerned, which has ME worried. I've always run a little low, but not like this. I could Google, but....
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
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