OK, Campers. My appointment is now set for the PET Scan which will tell if my treatments have been successful in eradicating the disease. I will have the scan on Tuesday, August 19. Later that day, I will meet with Dr. Caudell, my radiation oncologist, to decode the results. So, here's keeping my fingers crossed!!
I also had an appointment with the speech pathologist/swallowing specialists yesterday and found out that I have probably slowed down part of my recovery process by making some invalid assumptions. I figured that one treatment was over and since I was swallowing OK, I could discontinue the swallowing exercises that I had been doing since before treatment began. Wrong. . . . I need to still be doing them to work on getting control of my tongue back., I just figured that it would be a matter of time, related to when the swelling of my tongue went away. Oh, eventually, that latter route would have worked, but I can speed up the process by getting back on the exercise regimen. In my feeble defense, for the first few weeks after treatment ended, I could barely stay awake so getting up the ambition to exercise, hell getting the ambition to do anything, was beyond my capacity. Yeah, that's my story ad I'm sticking to it.
Hope all is well with all of you!!!
Peace and love to all!!
Joe
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