 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 |
Welcome to OCF John.
Congrats on finishing your treatments. Glad you have found OCF for some help going forward. Radiation and chemo can be rough to go thru and healing can take a while. Its not always an easy recovery with one small step at a time.
Sorry, no info about that particular hospital. Sleeping is something I havent done very well since I became sick. I do sometimes need to rely on prescription sleeping pills called trazadone.
As far as staging goes, its staged 1 thru 4 with 4 being the worst, there is no stage 5. There are many much more qualified people here than myself who understand staging beter than I do. Hopefully they can answer your staginj question.
Again, welcome and feel free to post questions/concerns.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
