New cancer 2 months after TORS Surgery chemo+radiation

Posted by phyllisg @phyllisg, Apr 16, 2024

My husband had extensive TORS surgery Jan 25 for HPV + SSC. While hospitalized for aspiration pneumonia catscan showed cancer is back and biopsy revealed it's deeply embedded behind where tonsil was. He has to go to rehab for PT to regain strength before starting concurrent chemo + radiation. How hard is this on a 76 year old who was in good physical health 6 months ago? Looking g for suggestions or advice from experience of others. Thank you.

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wifili, lilyann here,

wish the best on your pet scan on the 3rd of nov. i go on the 4th of nov. i think i have about had it with the pet scans as each and everyone of them said "different" things........like one said i had cardiomegaly, so had to do an echo. several said i had a "normal" heart. now i am suppose to have a small hiatal hernia. however, the last radiologist didn't say anything about it on the last one. this last time did show an increase in size but as the n/p said......not by much. however, i'm not too sure about her being i asked her what they seen in the brain and she said she wasn't aware that i had an MRI, i didn't but the tec told me they were going to do the brain and it did say: limited evaluation to the brain due to intense physiologic uptake in the brain. i see no numbers after this remark and from what i could gather from dr. google, that's a good sign. lol. i'm oh so tired of the needles and blood draws. more to the story but running out of space. i'm not even suppose to be here. i have left it in god's hands, its all in his plan. god help all of us.

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The Almighty Healer! I say “ Jesus heal my body” several times a day. And when I am in that MRI and Pet Scan machine - I repeat it over and over. ❤️

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