I wd like to know how many of you were smokers drinkers when dx with hpv pos head neck? Did you also have a good outcome?
Hi agree with Dani you need to trust the process otherwise you’ll make yourself ill. As a cancer patient both myself and hubby now have an attitude why worry over things that are out of our control if we can’t influence the ending we can’t worry about it. Remember we have an excellent cure rare the treatment is hard it needs to be it’s attacking our cancers in the most delicate and used area of our bodies. Only us as patients know. But we couldn’t get through it without our people around us and I include my cancer buddies on here. Remember you need time to yourself as well fir your own sanity and as a patient I appreciated the odd hour my hubby met his friend for a coffee.
hugs
Remember trust the process
Hazel
Hazel aka RadioactiveRaz
My blog is www.radioactiveraz.wordpress.com HPV 16+ tonsil cancer Now 6 years post treatment. 35 radiotherapy 2 chemo T2N2NM.Happily getting on with living always happy to help
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Thank you so much. It’s been a hard road and a lot is easier said than done. I feel I’m getting better. I want nithing more than to make him feel comfortable without stressing him out w my concerns for his health. It’s the hardest road to go down.
Gave up smoking on 3rd August 2012 - remember it exactly as it was a tearful thing me sitting my two young kids up on the kitchen worktop and crushing a full packet in my hands promising them I'd never smoke another cigarette as long as I lived. Fortunately been a promise I've kept.
Stupidly I started vaping maybe around 5 years ago and probably vaped too much. Hardly touched them during treatment but have been back on them since feeling better, so maybe time to make another promise !
Drink wise I never really drunk/drink through the week but love my pints on a Friday and Saturday (sometimes a Sunday if there is good sport on the telly). Would say that 8 months post treatment I'm probably back to drinking the same amount as I was before diagnosis. Always just lager, never really been into wine and spirits.
Enjoy it just as much as I did before last year's events.
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