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I've finally finished my recommended course of radiation and chemotherapy for the cancer I had diagnosed last March. As of today there is absolute 100% remission. There is no indication of any remaining cancer or any regrowth of the cancer they found. There is no indication of any cancer that has spread to other locations.
It's been a pretty tough 5 months of treatments. I've had the sorest throat you can imagine since March 13, the date of the first surgery. So far I've had 5 surgeries, died on one operating table, and need 3 more surgeries to pull stuff out of my body that was used for the treatments.
The tracheotomy wasn't exactly used for the treatments, but they needed that after giving me a medication to which I am fatally allergic. Just in case you were wondering, EMT guys don't worry about bruising or cracking your ribs when they're trying to start your heart back up.
I've been on a feeding tube since July and lost 10% of my body weight (I wasn't overweight) the week before I had that hooked up.
Now I'm on my way back to recovery. I doubt I'll have the strength or stamina to go to basketball games until maybe the start of Valley play. I've got to get back to work before my disability runs our and that's going to take about eveything I've got for a few months.
I'm still likely to be on this feeding tube for another 4 to 6 weeks. Another doctor says it could be 3 to 4 weeks. It's tough to gain much strength or stamina with no solid food, although I know I can puree lunch meat and get it into my stomach.
It's been a pretty tough 5 months of treatments. I've had the sorest throat you can imagine since March 13, the date of the first surgery. So far I've had 5 surgeries, died on one operating table, and need 3 more surgeries to pull stuff out of my body that was used for the treatments.
The tracheotomy wasn't exactly used for the treatments, but they needed that after giving me a medication to which I am fatally allergic. Just in case you were wondering, EMT guys don't worry about bruising or cracking your ribs when they're trying to start your heart back up.
I've been on a feeding tube since July and lost 10% of my body weight (I wasn't overweight) the week before I had that hooked up.
Now I'm on my way back to recovery. I doubt I'll have the strength or stamina to go to basketball games until maybe the start of Valley play. I've got to get back to work before my disability runs our and that's going to take about eveything I've got for a few months.
I'm still likely to be on this feeding tube for another 4 to 6 weeks. Another doctor says it could be 3 to 4 weeks. It's tough to gain much strength or stamina with no solid food, although I know I can puree lunch meat and get it into my stomach.
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