Hello s.paull

Your husbands symptoms sound very much like mine. The tumours I had in my neck permanently damaged the main accessory nerve to my shoulder resulting in major nerve pain and a 'dropped' shoulder. This is called a 'palsy' in medical jargon. The shoulder looks lower than the other and falls forward. I still experience pain and require drugs to control it, although I am now tumour-free . The soreness etc I felt from the neck dissection was quite different to the ongoing shoulder pain.

It would be tough for your husband to work with that kind of pain. From Helen, with love