As best as I can recall (I keep blanking on some of this) for a few months post-radiation, I would get up out of bed, get dressed and fed, then go lay down on the couch, getting up only when necessary, until it was time to get undressed and get into bed. And I was already on anti-depressants.

I can't imagine having had to interrupt that routine to run a delivery service for schoolkids, so she's doing better than I likely would have done.

Time and healing from the radiation devastation will take care of this naturally.


Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.