Eric,

I hope everything out east is going as well as you expected!

I have a spot on each side that gets a little tender but has been that way for about a year. I even had some lumps in there a few weeks ago but nothing showed up on scans and the doctor felt it could just be a bit of swelling from me fighting off a virus my son had/has. I take Bextra for some arthritis stuff and I noticed when I take it, the neck thing also stops hurting which leads me to believe it is just muscle tissue issues from radiation.

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