GREAT news! A good friend of mine was diagnosed with throat cancer the same day I was told I have lymphoma,and his treatment has been brutal. Chemo one day a week for two weeks,and radiation 5 days a week for 3 months. Including the days he had chemo. He was told yesterday the tumor in his throat was gone. All this time he has had a tube in his throat that kept him from breathing though his nose or mouth,eating,and even talking. Had to be fed through another tube in his stomach. I am not exaggerating when I say his arms are now half the size they used to be. Besides losing muscle mass,he was close to starvation.
He now has a different type of tube in his mouth that allows him to eat small soft things for the time being,and this is big,also allows him to speak and breathe through his nose. The stomach tube is gone.
I have no doubt it will take him at least two weeks before he starts feeling stronger and is able to go back to work a few hours a day at his commercial garage,but IF he is very careful and watches what he is doing,he may be back to working all day doing small things within a month.
All this time the bills have kept coming in,and no profits being made. On top of the other monthly bills. We can only imagine what effect this had on him,but I'm sure it wasn't minor. Just knowing that he no longer has the tumor and can start thinking about going back to work instead of worrying about more surgery and more desperate treatment is going to be a HUGE part of his recovery.
Worry is always harmful to recovery from any physical ailment,but there is no way to avoid it until the doctors tell you you have a clean bill of health and will soon be able to go back to work.
He was treated at the same clinic as me,but had a different doctor and different form of cancer.
