"Graduation Day" for the Bigfuzzydoug

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  • staceya
    staceya Member Posts: 720
    #22
    Kent Cass said:

    Doug
    Excellent to hear of your reaching the end of the road- of treatment, and starting on a new one that's one heckuva lot better than the one you been on. Oh yeah.

    kcass

    Congratulations! Sometimes
    Congratulations! Sometimes there is a little bit of a blue period now, I am not sure why.
    I had it and so have others, maybe it is expecting things to recover faster than they do??
    Glad it is over!
    Stacey
  • D Lewis
    D Lewis Member Posts: 1,581 Member
    #23
    Congratulations
    Doug,

    Congratulations upon your matriculation, so to speak. Sending healing thoughts your way, and hoping you heal quickly and well.

    Deb
  • Scambuster
    Scambuster Member Posts: 973
    #24
    Duuuude !
    Ahhh like dude, they did actually turn the rads machine 'on' didn't they ?

    Glad to hear you walked it in Doug. Amazing. Now off to train for your 'Tour De Life'.

    Scam
  • Greg53
    Greg53 Member Posts: 849
    #25
    Scambuster said:

    Duuuude !
    Ahhh like dude, they did actually turn the rads machine 'on' didn't they ?

    Glad to hear you walked it in Doug. Amazing. Now off to train for your 'Tour De Life'.

    Scam

    Yeah!!!!
    Great news Man! Here's to a speedy and dull recovery!

    Greg
  • luv4lacrosse
    luv4lacrosse Member Posts: 1,410 Member
    #26
    VERY INSPIRING READING
    Doug, great news, I can only immagine how much relief you and your family must feel. How did you fare with the side effects?

    After today I have 13 Radiation Treaments left. I am having horrible side effects that caused me to have to work from home and only home starting almost 2 weeks ago. Very thick mucous, 2 or 3 huge sores on my Tongue and Mouth, daily low grade fevers, I sweat all day with or without a fever,Teeth pain, ETC.

    I can still swallow as I am on 150 MIC's of Fentanyl, and Oxycodone Liquid as needed. I also get a Liter of NS via my Catheter every day. I have accepted the fact that a PEG is probably on it's way as the only nutrition I can tolerate by mouth are high calorie shakes and Ensure or Boost.

    I literally live day by day right now as I am just miserable.

    Your post of making it through has inspired me. At least for today!

    Any suggestions for more comfort with the side effects??

    All the best

    Mike
  • Bigfuzzydoug
    Bigfuzzydoug Member Posts: 154
    #27
    luv4lacrosse said:

    VERY INSPIRING READING
    Doug, great news, I can only immagine how much relief you and your family must feel. How did you fare with the side effects?

    After today I have 13 Radiation Treaments left. I am having horrible side effects that caused me to have to work from home and only home starting almost 2 weeks ago. Very thick mucous, 2 or 3 huge sores on my Tongue and Mouth, daily low grade fevers, I sweat all day with or without a fever,Teeth pain, ETC.

    I can still swallow as I am on 150 MIC's of Fentanyl, and Oxycodone Liquid as needed. I also get a Liter of NS via my Catheter every day. I have accepted the fact that a PEG is probably on it's way as the only nutrition I can tolerate by mouth are high calorie shakes and Ensure or Boost.

    I literally live day by day right now as I am just miserable.

    Your post of making it through has inspired me. At least for today!

    Any suggestions for more comfort with the side effects??

    All the best

    Mike

    Self-hypnosis
    Even though she's an excellent Certified Hypnotherapist, I didn't have my wife make me self-hypnosis CDs. We just bought them from Health Journeys, Belleruth Naparstek. I don't know why and I don't know how and I can't prove for sure... but I believe with all my heart that listening to a CD every day before I would take a nap really helped me to handle the side-effects much better than most people. I have the Radiation and Fight Cancer CDs.

    http://www.healthjourneys.com/category.aspx?mcid=7&catid=13
  • Jimbo55
    Jimbo55 Member Posts: 590 Member
    #28
    Bigfuzzydoug said:

    Self-hypnosis
    Even though she's an excellent Certified Hypnotherapist, I didn't have my wife make me self-hypnosis CDs. We just bought them from Health Journeys, Belleruth Naparstek. I don't know why and I don't know how and I can't prove for sure... but I believe with all my heart that listening to a CD every day before I would take a nap really helped me to handle the side-effects much better than most people. I have the Radiation and Fight Cancer CDs.

    http://www.healthjourneys.com/category.aspx?mcid=7&catid=13

    Excellent Doug
    Way to go Doug, sorry for the late post, but I've been away for the past week. Here's hoping your recovery is smooth. Cheers

    Jimbo

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