Diane,

Everyone has their different ways of getting through this, I see in your husband some of the same attitude as mine; I hate taking pills, I put up with the pain, I really pushed myself to not loose weight, I avoided asking certain questions of the Doctors (the answer they would give wouldn't help anyway) I think more time needs to go by before things are back close to normal. For me I knew I was making progress mentally when my sense of time returned. From the time I was diagnosed to many months after treatment ended Time went by very slowly. Weeks seemed like months, months like years...After 6 or 8 months went by I started to notice days and weeks were starting to go by a little faster. Now they go by too fast (but that is another subject)

My point is the Mental part of this takes a longer time to heal than alot of the physical treatments. I also noticed a bit of new fear when all the treatments ended. You loose any sense that you are actively fighting the disease. That is itself a new sourse of stress. If he needed antidepressants before I would suggest he may still need them. Get some help figguring that out.

Take care


Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.