 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I am 58 myself. PAIN MANAGEMENT! That is the key! It is difficult at this stage, and hard to watch, but human being are pretty resilient. He should be reporting his pain daily to the radiation techs and the doctors need to be uping his pain meds. He should NOT be suffering - demand adequate pain management! He needs to describe his pain using the scale they are familiar with - 0-10 - 10 being the worst, unbearable pain.
The treatment has got to beat you up pretty good to work. Make sure that he keeps to his nutritional plan and stays hydrated.
The mucous will just up and dissapear eventually and fairly suddenly. This will all pass so he must hang tough - he's almost there! Another month or so of suffering and he will be past it.
He has done better than most to get this close to the end of treatment with few side effects.
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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