Tuesday, September 11, 2007

5 month update

Well, here it is the 11th of September and I'm now a 5 month cancer survivor. I got my left tonsil removed 4 weeks ago yesterday and unfortunately still experiencing pain in my throat. I was however, able to quit using the liquid codeine a few days ago, but had to take a dose this afternoon so I could eat dinner tonight.
Got the results back a week after the surgery and test results came back negative....NO cancer found!!!!!
I flew to Washington last week and spent a couple days Salmon fishing with JR and Jeff, then left for beautiful British Columbia to Lake HiHium to do some Kamloops Rainbow fly fishing. During my stay at the cabin I was able to eat most of the food that was cooked and fortunately did not have to rely on eating yogurt. I was actually thinking that when I got home after being gone for 10 days that I would gain some weight back.
Weighed 137 lbs when I got home and the next morning was back down to 133lbs.
All I can say now is that I'm trying to eat more and more each day and hopefully my throat will start feeling better soon.
Not too much else to report. I'm just so ready to start feeling better and being able to eat food without it hurting so bad.
One thing that has definitly happened is that I think my stomach has shrunk. When I am able to eat, I can no longer eat the quantity that I used to be able to eat.
We'll see what happens in the future.

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