Monday 13th June 2005

Coming along slow but sure now my treatment has finished. Went to see the oncologist on Friday (10th June) he was really pleased at how I was doing and when he felt my neck he said it felt good and he couldn't feel anything bad.
The skin on my neck is also looking a lot better except for one small patch right at the front that is still a bit tender and sore but each day it's getting less and less the rest is now turning a lovely golden brown like a great sun tan wish the rest of my body was like it...lol.. I will take a photo of it later and put it in here ( my neck that is not my body!..hehehe)
As for eating I have no problems now, my throat is still feeling slightly sore and I'm still on the painkillers just to help at meal times but nothing as bad as it was.
I'm also sleeping through the night now and not waking up to keep having drinks of water.
One thing that I wish would get better and that is my voice but having said that some days it is better then others on the worst days it's really hard to talk and people have a hard time understanding me, I did ask the oncoligist if he had an idea of how long I'd be without my voice and he said it could be a while yet but he said that one day I'd be without it then the next it could come back just like that and he snapped his fingers. Other then that I'm feeling good.
Now the next important thing is the appointment at the hospital in about 2 weeks time, when I see the whole team and when Mr England (ENT) has a look with a mirror to see if everything is healing and looking okay on my vocal cords.
Catch you later when I put in the photo...

I'm afraid I'm a couple of days late adding the photo, as you can see it's looking a lot better even though it still looks sore right at the front it doesn't feel as bad as it looks this photo was taken 22 days after treatment had finished...