Sweetpea,

You know its no cakewalk....but its not as bad as our fears make it. I had to do a modified radical bi-lateral on Oct 31st of all days. So I put on my best Frankenstein bolts and went to the OR smile Now you have to know what you're looking for or you'll miss all the work that was done.
Hope it all works out well for you...do ALL of your exercises and do what you're instructed and you'll be OK.

Stage 4b BOT and node on right of throat. did 38 trips of TOMO PEG tube,Cysplatin,Taxotere & 5fu 1st 4th and 7th week, changed to Erbitux for the last 4 weeks. 1st PETS since end of TX..CLEAR 6mos out and 2 nodes are hot. Bilateral neck dissection on 10/31/08. Clear Scan 3/31/09 & 8/02/2010