OP "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 531 | Thanks Rita for replying...this sure has been wierd!!! Not sleeping even during recovery anyway not much couldn't with the nurse, physiotheropist, and dietician coming,,,it was very hard to get sleep then came the can't sleep till 4 or 5 in the morning and now well I can fall asleep real easy but can't stay asleep... up more than asleep...I don't think I am depresses and as far as something brewing one can never be too careful...but waiting to see massage therapist in hopes to move the fluid around to alieve the tension...For now just sleep when I can and am keeping a running things I have noticed for when I see the doctor in London. When I called told them I was having trouble sleeping they told me that that was my family doctor's realm but he does't see the necessity and that I don't warrant something to help sleep...I don't think he is very up with cancer treatments cause as I have mentioned before that two months ago he didn't understand why I needed pain killers at two months out of surgery. He is very much in the dark. Anyway I am keeping a list and checking it twice of everything I notice. Mostly feels like pressure headaches and pressure earaches which I have been told can be caused through jaw trauma. I am also keeping all the imput from my friends here is helping... thanks...
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
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