 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Did I miss it? Has someone posted a standard for how many pills are quite enough? What has the raw number of meds being taken at any time have to do with their effectiveness?
Sounds, once again, like misplaced efforts to control the uncontrollable (the cancer) by controlling something else, like the number of pills or the number of chairs in the room -- Reminds me very much of the joke about the drunk searching for his car keys a block away from where he lost them because "the light's better here"
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.
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