 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Here's my short list:
1. Take detailed notes, or better yet bring a note taker with you.
2. Keep a daily log of your food, fluids, medication and response/adverse effects.
3. Call the doctor, advice nurse or go to the ER if your temperature exceeds 100.5 degrees.
4. Get anti-anxiety meds if you are freaked out by the mask.
5. Take it one day at a time. Stay in the "now". It didn't pass quickly for me - it was the longest 6 months in my life - but keep focused on life after treatment.
Do all of the other stuff people told 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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