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Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) P16+

Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Apr 4 8:21pm | Replies (110)

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@westand731

Plentiful advice here both direct and unbridled and much empathetic and loving. Take your time, breathe, pray. Listen to your healthcare providers .. they are the experts, yet many of us have gone through and survived the lymph node dissections and TORS robotic surgeries, feeding tubes, sleepless nights, weight loss and inability to tolerate food or even swallowing. Walk on friend, listen to the counsel and instruction of your oncology physicians. You can do this. Many of us here had fears and doubt approaching this head and neck cancer (P16+ SCC) for the first time. It's OK and completely normal to feel your fears. We can be a safe place to Vent and lean into emotional support 🩵 and your Doctors, Nurses and healthcare professionals shall be the ones to give you Medical advice. Praying for you on the beginning of what feels like a dark journey, You Can Do This. Walk on through it, Prayer and Divine spirit will see you through. Best to you,

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thanks appreciate it. I get all those procedures, I never have and probably never will trust anything medical... it's the effects of the PTSD. I don't consider it a dark journey either. I consider it a PITA interuption of my world. I know I can (aside from the PTSD) get through it. no tubes etc. what I'm not getting is information I'm asking for from these providers. Aside from that. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing even when I get sick I won't. So since I know that certain pieces of this path consist of sitting around for as much as 3 hours.... good luck. I become a complete PITA within an hour. So eh we shall see, I still have 3 more to talk to.