I just started watching your videos. Great advice! My husband recently finished radiation and chemo treatments for squamous cell neck cancer 6 weeks ago. Your video was so spot on! If you are friends with someone that is going through a difficult cancer treatment, don’t wait to be asked for help. Just do it! Step up and help with chores, mow their lawn, run to the grocery store for them, buy them a gas card if they have extensive driving to get to their treatment center! It would have really put a smile on our faces after a long day at radiation and the chemo center, to come home to a lawn that was mowed! I can’t even count the number of times friends and family have said, ”if there is anything I can do to help you and your husband please let me know”. I know everyone meant well, but families going through treatment don’t have the fortitude to even ask for help. The throat cancer patient is going through a horrific treatment- the most painful, scary, difficult time of their lives. Caretakers are floundering, struggling, and stressed to the max! It’s stressful to have to ask for help! Very few friends and relatives don't comprehend the horrific and painful treatment involved with a head and neck cancer diagnosis and the long, difficult recovery process! No one realizes that the two weeks post-treatment are the absolute worst! Everyone assumed that once finished with treatment, all is well. Not! Trying to explain all this again and again to family has been difficult! Our treatment center was a 250 mile round trip. Staying closer to the treatment center was not an option for us. We both hold down F/T jobs, and live on a small farmette with a couple of horses. Our 7 week treatment routine consisted of getting up at 3 am each morning to make the 250 mile round trip to the treatment center, getting home around noon. For the first 3 weeks of treatment, my husband would go into work and work a late shift. I did the same, except I continued to work after I brought him home throughout his entire treatment except for the last week. I would get home around 10pm many nights, catch a few hours sleep, and turn around and do it all the next day. 350 miles of driving /day with a full work day takes its toll, leaving no time for sleep and no time for much needed chores! It would have meant so much to us if anyone stepped up and helped- mow the lawn, weed the garden, bring hay and feed out to the barn, take the trash to the dumps! You are absolutely correct that cancer is financially devastating even if you have good insurance! We have excellent insurance. I can’t imagine what we would have done if we didn’t. Unfortunately, all the extra expenses that go along with a cancer diagnosis are astronomical! It wiped out a good chunk of our savings. Gas expenses (gas at an all-time high now!) for 12,000 miles of driving for the treatments, doctor appointments, drives for lab work, imaging tests, Tolls, Parking fees, co-pays, and all the extra necessities needed for cancer care that are not covered by insurance really add up! A gas card, or even some some help with parking fees and tolls would have been so very much appreciated! Thank you for taking the time to do this video! Everyone that knows someone going through cancer treatment needs to watch this!
Brilliant advice, i was extremely blessed to have my 3 grown sons who were fantastic during my over 1 year in the hospital, it was very difficult for them,especially my youngest,who took on most of the responsibility, i couldn't have gotten thru this without them,there are so many little things that one can do to support a throat cancer patient, and it means so much💜
Thank you, I have a friend who has recently been diagnosed with throat cancer and is about to start treatment. Your videos in general and this one in particular have been incredibly helpful. Will also refer him to your videos and group. Respect and thanks!
Hi Bob ! Thank you for these videos . It will help a lot of people out there ... what was your symptoms? Did you go to the ENT first ? What procedures they did to you ? Thanks ...
Honey or any sugar seemed to create more mucus for me so I avoided it. Glad you found something to help. A lot of this battle is doing just that, experimenting to find what works for you individually. Thank you for sharing!
Throat Cancer Advice from a Survivor ya you hit the nail right on the head there ? Experimenting with advise others put out is key ! I am now counting down as 10 left , I’m still eating solid food , I actually gained a pound , and although my throat is sore as hell , I’m getting through it , and these last days they are cutting my table time in mask in half ! My Dr said I should have less symptoms because of this , and I should start feeling better a couple weeks after it ends ! So I’m fighting and praying this barbaric treatment killed this cancer !
Fixing to go through this and just wondering if you can drive yourself to and from the treatments or is this not a option. Just found out two days ago I haven’t even been to the actual cancer doctor yet have appointment tomarrow.
My tumors took quite awhile to actually shrink in size but the doc said this is due to swelling also. Remember, it's not the size of the tumor that's important, it's how many cancer cells are there that you care about! In fact the lump under my jawbone can still be felt a little after 5 years due to a little scar tissue.
Throat Cancer Advice from a Survivor thanks bro , I’m almost 4 weeks post radiation, and last week got scared by the ENT Dr , he scoped me and showed me where it was it was whitish looking now and then he said my neck he doesn’t freak out on anymore , and I have to see him end of month , he said I’m doing a lot better then most at 3 weeks ? So hopefully that’s good bro ! I started working out , taking Essiac Tea
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I just started watching your videos. Great advice! My husband recently finished radiation and chemo treatments for squamous cell neck cancer 6 weeks ago. Your video was so spot on! If you are friends with someone that is going through a difficult cancer treatment, don’t wait to be asked for help. Just do it! Step up and help with chores, mow their lawn, run to the grocery store for them, buy them a gas card if they have extensive driving to get to their treatment center! It would have really put a smile on our faces after a long day at radiation and the chemo center, to come home to a lawn that was mowed! I can’t even count the number of times friends and family have said, ”if there is anything I can do to help you and your husband please let me know”. I know everyone meant well, but families going through treatment don’t have the fortitude to even ask for help. The throat cancer patient is going through a horrific treatment- the most painful, scary, difficult time of their lives. Caretakers are floundering, struggling, and stressed to the max! It’s stressful to have to ask for help!
Very few friends and relatives don't comprehend the horrific and painful treatment involved with a head and neck cancer diagnosis and the long, difficult recovery process! No one realizes that the two weeks post-treatment are the absolute worst! Everyone assumed that once finished with treatment, all is well. Not! Trying to explain all this again and again to family has been difficult!
Our treatment center was a 250 mile round trip. Staying closer to the treatment center was not an option for us. We both hold down F/T jobs, and live on a small farmette with a couple of horses. Our 7 week treatment routine consisted of getting up at 3 am each morning to make the 250 mile round trip to the treatment center, getting home around noon. For the first 3 weeks of treatment, my husband would go into work and work a late shift. I did the same, except I continued to work after I brought him home throughout his entire treatment except for the last week. I would get home around 10pm many nights, catch a few hours sleep, and turn around and do it all the next day. 350 miles of driving /day with a full work day takes its toll, leaving no time for sleep and no time for much needed chores! It would have meant so much to us if anyone stepped up and helped- mow the lawn, weed the garden, bring hay and feed out to the barn, take the trash to the dumps!
You are absolutely correct that cancer is financially devastating even if you have good insurance! We have excellent insurance. I can’t imagine what we would have done if we didn’t. Unfortunately, all the extra expenses that go along with a cancer diagnosis are astronomical! It wiped out a good chunk of our savings. Gas expenses (gas at an all-time high now!) for 12,000 miles of driving for the treatments, doctor appointments, drives for lab work, imaging tests, Tolls, Parking fees, co-pays, and all the extra necessities needed for cancer care that are not covered by insurance really add up! A gas card, or even some some help with parking fees and tolls would have been so very much appreciated!
Thank you for taking the time to do this video! Everyone that knows someone going through cancer treatment needs to watch this!
I totally agree!
Brilliant advice, i was extremely blessed to have my 3 grown sons who were fantastic during my over 1 year in the hospital, it was very difficult for them,especially my youngest,who took on most of the responsibility, i couldn't have gotten thru this without them,there are so many little things that one can do to support a throat cancer patient, and it means so much💜
Really practical well-thought-out advice. Thank you for sharing this!
My friend just got diagnosed with throat cancer thank you for the great advice god bless you 🙏🏻
Thank you, I have a friend who has recently been diagnosed with throat cancer and is about to start treatment. Your videos in general and this one in particular have been incredibly helpful. Will also refer him to your videos and group. Respect and thanks!
This is such great advice - thank you.
Hi Bob ! Thank you for these videos . It will help a lot of people out there ... what was your symptoms? Did you go to the ENT first ? What procedures they did to you ? Thanks ...
Nice video. Thanks. 1/3 the way through my treatments and the throat is now getting real sore
I find honey helps a whole lot ! God you inspire me and made me laugh for the first time since the start of this
Honey or any sugar seemed to create more mucus for me so I avoided it. Glad you found something to help. A lot of this battle is doing just that, experimenting to find what works for you individually. Thank you for sharing!
Throat Cancer Advice from a Survivor ya you hit the nail right on the head there ? Experimenting with advise others put out is key ! I am now counting down as 10 left , I’m still eating solid food , I actually gained a pound , and although my throat is sore as hell , I’m getting through it , and these last days they are cutting my table time in mask in half ! My Dr said I should have less symptoms because of this , and I should start feeling better a couple weeks after it ends ! So I’m fighting and praying this barbaric treatment killed this cancer !
Thank you
Fixing to go through this and just wondering if you can drive yourself to and from the treatments or is this not a option. Just found out two days ago I haven’t even been to the actual cancer doctor yet have appointment tomarrow.
Love you brother , in 4 weeks today , seems my neck lump is being stubborn , I don’t get it !
My tumors took quite awhile to actually shrink in size but the doc said this is due to swelling also. Remember, it's not the size of the tumor that's important, it's how many cancer cells are there that you care about! In fact the lump under my jawbone can still be felt a little after 5 years due to a little scar tissue.
Throat Cancer Advice from a Survivor thanks bro , I’m almost 4 weeks post radiation, and last week got scared by the ENT Dr , he scoped me and showed me where it was it was whitish looking now and then he said my neck he doesn’t freak out on anymore , and I have to see him end of month , he said I’m doing a lot better then most at 3 weeks ? So hopefully that’s good bro ! I started working out , taking Essiac Tea