 Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 126 | Kerry,
Whe expect thngs to improve rapidly after the end of the treatments. But this is not so. What doctors fail to tell us is that there is a gradual decline in health following the treatments due the effects on the bidy by the radiation and chemotherapy.
There were many times when I felt that my spouse was not going to make it that the cancer had come back. Now, 10 months after the end of the treatments she is still not fully recovered.
It is a long and slow process but hang in there as things will get better. Be patient.
Vin
CG to wife;
Jan 2005 DX SCC Tongue T2N1MO; RND surgery Mar 2005; 35 XRT and 4 cisplatin completed Jul 2005.
Dec 2006 tongue surgery, Scar tissue no cancer.
Feb 2010 neck node FNA - negative.
2010 ORN right jaw plus fracture
2015 ORN left jaw plus fracture
Feb 2016 Lower jaw reconstruction by Fibula free flap+titanium plate - Permanent G-tube
June 2016 Difficulty breathing - Permanent Trachea tube
Dec 2019 DX Cervical cancer - Stage 1 - Surgery Jan 16 2020.
15-20 esophagus/larynx dilations
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