CancerCompass message board discussion started by ecmb709 on 3/5/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,21687,0.htm Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I've posted here several times about my husband's SCC.  Just wanted to let you all know that he had his PET scan recently and it came back clear.  The last six months have been such a roller coaster ride from a diagnosis of negative for cancer, then to positive for cancer; then through two surgeries, chemo and radiation.  Hope this encourages those of you who are in the midst of the chemo/radiation thing.  As difficult as it is, please stick with it.     ecmb709 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT Yay!! Good for you guys!I just had a clean PET this week as well, at 10 months out. Girlcat36 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Wow! How wonderful for both of you - congratulations! Right now my husband is so very miserable, having coughed away the night last night with neither of us getting any sleep, and approaching just 5 more days of radiation.  It seems that every day that is a really 'good' day, is followed by one equally as awful. I am so happy for you - just to know what you went through -as best as anyone can who isn't actually the survivor and that you've had a positive outcome. I'm trying to just reassure him that he'll get through this and it will be worth it.  God bless all of you who got through this. gulfgirl Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT So now my husband is DONE treatment1 His 30th radiation treatment was yesterday and it was like a load was physically lfted from him. His plan is to keep getting an infusion of fluids the next few days - perhaps even all week to fight deydration, but his menatl attitude has come alive and while I as out yesterday he did some household chores, including his favorite - vacuuming. No joke.  So, everyone who is just starting or in the middle, it is a rocky, rocky, miserable road ahead, but just when you think you or your partner thinks he can't do it, it's just one more day, and then just one more day and voila! you are done.  Now we do have to wait for the results over the next few months, but our head radiation oncologist has a much higher percentage of controls than the national average. Hers is 87-90%, so we are very optimistic.  Bless everyone goind through or having made it through this. Spring is just around the corner and we will all be there to enjoy it.     Gwen gulfgirl Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT