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Your tips for recovery after 35 radiation treatments for tonsil cancer
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@dragonfire I gaged improvement week to week during recovery rather than day to day because the latter was depressing. Week to week showed some progress and month to month, particularly a few months out was great.
Keep fighting. Keep trying different things to see what works. You are in the difficult next few weeks. You will feel like you are still going downhill when the treatments end for about a week or so, like pulling a roast from the oven, it keeps cooking for a while. And then that day comes when something works again.
My daughter got me the "Pink Panther" series DVD's to watch. Inspector Clouseau tried to ford a moat unsuccessfully as one would expect. I laughed although it very much hurt to do so. My family noticed that I hadn't laughed in two months. The following week I could taste chicken soup, another milestone. In the years since, you would not believe the wonderful life I have lived.
You too can and will see this through. As Clouseau says, this is a bimp in the rood.
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@hrhwilliam Hi Will,
Nice to be here. I am newbie to the C-world. Only 2.5 years outta the woods. I can relate to your post on food milestone. People's faces light up when I burst out into joy when I share I graduated to a mean mac n cheese. I was hesitant to try it without talking to SLP. I managed to heat a frozen CRAVE and I was literally riding a WAVE. Just another Blip in the Road. Gee, I'll sell the title of song to David Gilmour or Roger Waters. Humour goes along way in my recovery.
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I know those movies well and I cannot stop laughing either when I watch them. I give my work a lot of focus to keep my mind off of me. I agree with your week to week because day to day difficult to gage. I know about lack of laughing because of all my crying but working on that. I met with my social worker the other day and she was impressed with my plan and how I looked. I know we are going to have good and bad days and today seems to be the later. I hate this so much but I guess the Lord and father time should get me through this. I appreciate all the comments of this support group it has really given me more hope this hell will end.