 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Welcome to the club Wayne! I didn't even have medical insurance when I started the great adventure (thank you Joanna). I was healthy and had quite all of my bad lifestyle choices many years earlier. I was really gambling then. For most of us this disease has come from out of nowhere so we can relate to how you feel. Sleeping is good and you will do a lot of it because of the natural cancer fatigue effect.
The most trying time is the post Dx pre Tx stage.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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