Not to hi-jack Danny G's post, but I wanted to respond to Ed. BTW, my equalibrium is pretty good -- no major problems. In any case, Ed, I get that shock feeling also when I look down and I spoke to my radiation oncologist about it a couple of weeks ago. He said it's a standard after-affect of the radiation treatment, although I don't remember the name of the syndrome. He also said to give it a year or so and there's a good chance it will go away. I've kind of gotten used to it -- one of the many aspects of the new "normal."

-Brett


Base of Tongue SCC. Stage IV, T1N2bM0. Diagnosed 25 July 2003.
Treated with 6 weeks induction chemo -- Taxol & Carboplatin once a week followed with 30 fractions IMRT, 10 fields per fraction over 6 more weeks. Recurrence October 2005.