Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Hang in there Nelie - you are right at the turning point. Progress is measured in three week increments early on. Try to have patience. The thick mucositis stuff usually just stops several week post Tx. It's been said many times here that "radiation is the gift that keeps on giving". The effects of it typically continue for three weeks post Tx (and that even can mean it can get worse), so nothing much changes during the first three weeks.
Most of us have been there - it really wears you sometimes doesn't it?
Actually you should be home bound as your immune system is pretty thrashed. You are taking a risk going out to public places right now. It was almost 2 years until my blood chemistry got back into normal ranges. Talk to your oncologist about going out in public and when it is safe for you to do so.
You'll start to get better I promise.
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2 Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
|