 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Terry,
You read correctly, 1 month of recovery to 1 week of radiation. I believe this is the minimum although many of the symptoms become tolerated easily. I was eating fried chicken 3 weeks after radiation, with lots of water. I finished radiation Oct 8, 2003 and last week had my very first meal with no water until after the meal was done. I didn't think that would ever happen, by the way. My taste buds still get a bit strange eating the same food.
The real thick brown goo and the blood are both from the severe damage to the mucous membranes in your throat. It is normal and one day you will suddenly realize it stopped completely.
Congratulations on this important milestone!
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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