 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I have to agree with Mark also. I am 5'6" and lost over 60 lbs. I am now pretty stable at a nice svelte 139 lbs - a healthy weight for my height. I attribute eating normal foods a lot faster with forgoing the PEG tube. My medical team was split. Half told me I was going "against medical advice" by not having one and the other half thought I could get by without one. They did freak a little when I got past the 20 lb. limit. I fooled the radiation oncologist - I think that she thought I was developing cachexia (wasting).
I had trouble talking for a while in the post Tx but I am singing in a band again so it will eventually get better.
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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