Friday, May 4, 2007

Good News!

Went to the ENT today and he checked me out and scoped me with the fiber optics to look for Bill. Bill, like Earl, is no longer visible!!! The base of the tongue where Bill was hanging out at is looking good and normal. Thank God!!! In your mind you know that what they have done will have killed both cancer locations and that they are gone but to have the doc look down there and just verify that they are gone is a huge relief. Now we play the waiting game again for the PET/CT scan in 5 weeks. It will probably be difficult as the time gets closer but right now it is still far enough out that there is no anxiety at this point.

Food wise still doing good. It is a challenge at times to come up with meals; as I need as many calories, good or bad, that I can get to maintain weight or gain. The list of things I want to eat is a mile long, unfortunately most of them are to dry for me to eat yet. A friend of mine asked if I could eat peanut butter; I wish I could but at this point it is too dry, even with the natural oils in it. Bread is really not an option at this point either. Andrea made me french dip for lunch yesterday and I really have to soak the bread to get it to go down without a drink. My tongue is still in the healing stages as well and today is the first day in over a month that I don't have a sore on it! I do baking soda and salt water rinses numerous times a day to keep the pH balance in my mouth neutral which has helped it to heal. Even though I don't have a sore on the tongue it is still red and sensitive to the good things I like to eat! Ranch salad dressing last night on my salad got to burning a bit - go figure salad dressing! It must be the pepper or the garlic??? I love spicy foods, salsa goes great on just about anything...I can't wait to be able to eat like that again! The Brewery Bar's hot green would probably having me crying like a baby at this point!

Once again thanks to everyone out there for their thoughts and prayers.