Sone, the last two weeks I was crying every time I sat on that table because I knew how much worse things would get. It only lasted less than a minute because crying hurt too. It was really tough, but I plowed through it, and it's behind me. It's been two months, and my mouth is dry, I wake up every 2-3 hours for a drink (I found that water works just as well as anything else that costs money, but everyone is different, and everyone's salivary function or lack thereof depends on where and how strong radiation was targeted). But it's so so so much better than it was the last two weeks of treatment and about a month after it ended. It's night and day. Keep going! You're almost done!


38 yo@dx, female, non-smoker, non-drinker, SCC right lateral tongue. T2N2aMx stage IVa; 1/20/09 bilateral neck dissection, hemiglossectomy, micromets in 2 right nodes, left all clear. 33xIMRT + 3 cisplatins. Tx completed 5/08/09. PET scan 7/29/09 clear, 5/26/10 clear, chest x-ray 5/23/11 clear