Karen,
I have to say that I learned a lot more here than I did at the hospital. I think that even if the docs tried to explain everything to us, we can only absorb so much when we are first diagnosed and processing and dealing with so much.

Of course when we are told that we will have a
"dry mouth" following radiation, it sounds like a pretty minor side effect when your life is at stake. However once treatment is over and you deal with the constant dry mouth, it is a major nuisance...but what choice did we have?

Danny G.


Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.