 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Amen to Minnie. I have had chronic insomnia ever since I started treatment. I am sure that true warriors and people of courage sleep well at night ;-)
Basically that's what my H&N surgeon told me also. I figured it was because of my stellar lifestyle - years of non-smoking, drug or alcohol use, perpetual optomist, etc.. Healthy foods, etc. No exposure to Agent Orange, etc.
But he summed it up to "just plain luck".
In the real scheme of things a PEG tube is a "3" but many prefer to give it a "10". There are much bigger fish to fry then having some dumb tube hanging out of you.
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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