Hello 🙂
I read all your stories & first of all wanted to thank you for sharing. I came across them trying to find answers on the internet (not sure if that’s good or not) while we are awaiting results of my relative’s PET scan. She was diagnosed last August with stage 4a throat cancer, and the doctors were optimistic they can cure it as it spread to the lymph nodes only. She went through intense treatment: chemo -radiation, I believe she had 35 radiation with concurrent chemo every 3 weeks. I should mention that she had a PET scan done last August which did not show the cancer anywhere else but throat & lymph nodes. The treatment was difficult, it was painful to see my close relative go through it but it finally ended and little by little she started to feel better & even smile again. This entire time she was unable to eat by month, or not very much anyway. Her feeds are mostly by g-tube still but she does drink liquids & sometimes has some pudding or purred soup. Couple of months after treatment ended she had another scan (regular CT scan) and the oncologist said although the throat cancer seems to be gone, he’s worried they see some small nodules on the lungs now. These were not there during the first scan few months back. They don’t know if it’s cancer that spread, or if it’s an infection from food aspiration as the swallow test she had showed the food going down the wrong way. She’s been having lots of issues with swallowing and thick saliva, coughing etc. We are fearing the worst, but wondering if anyone here experienced lung spots post (seemingly) successful treatment that turned out to be an infection or inflammation? Please share if you have any experience with this.
Thank you in advance. My thoughts & prayers are with everyone battling this disease. Kimi