My mom is over a year out of treatment and still has pain due to an exposed bone. The skin graph that was supposed to cover the bone pretty much fried with the radiation so it left the bone exposed. She also has to take pain killers fairly often but does not like taking them. She has had no HBO treatments because her ENT feels that if there was any cancer left the HBO treatments would cause it to spread faster. She just had a PET/CT scan last week that showed no signs of any cancer in her body but she to is experiencing pain. If you happen to find anything that will help this please keep me posted. I feel horrible that she has to live with this pain and hope there is something they can do to help her in the near future.

Dani


Originally joined OCF on 12/12/03 as DaniO or Danijams
Dani-Mom SCC BOT & floor of mouth surgery-recur then surgery/rads & chemo completed 3/04
surgery 11/06 to remove dead bone & replace jaw w/ leg bone & titanium plate