The first month is complete consisting of IMRT Radiation five days a week and three treatments with Chemo Therapy (once a week) that compliments the IMRT to bring the \u201cTongue Cancer\u201d to a stop. <\/p>\n
The schedule continues through the month of May and if all goes as forecasted I should be \u201cRid\u201d of this pest by months\u2019 end.<\/p>\n
By the end of the third week of treatment I discovered that I could not keep up with an adequate diet to truly maintain my weight and health. The Radiation\/ Chemo combination changed my ability to taste and enjoy food. I discovered you can\u2019t live on \u201cMilkshakes\u201d and a product named \u201cEnsure\u201d that delivers a lot of calories but falls short of your total needs.<\/p>\n
Thankfully and right on time, in walks the Representative from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and soon you find out the solution to your health needs. \u201cIsosource<\/strong>,\u201d a high calorie medical food, fills the bill and a \u201cpeg tube\u201d (feeding tube) is required so they can \u201cfill \u2018er up\u201d! At the MDA cancer center this is routine and I suggest you overcome your stubbornness, get it done and \u201cget on with your life\u201d!<\/p>\n Please realize that this is a \u201cTemporary Solution\u201d<\/strong>, it is not a permanent thing and will go away after you are properly fed. <\/p>\n SO my remaining schedule looks like: IMRT May 6 These are the last treatments I will have and hope to have a ride home to the Dallas area arranged immediately upon completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first month is complete consisting of IMRT Radiation five days a week and three treatments with Chemo Therapy (once a week) that compliments the IMRT to bring the \u201cTongue Cancer\u201d to a stop. The schedule continues through the month of May and if all goes as forecasted I should be \u201cRid\u201d of this pest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patient-testimonies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.prostateblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIMRT May 9, IMRT May 10, IMRT May 11, IMRT May 12, IMRT May 13,
\nIMRT May 16, IMRT May 17, IMRT May 18, IM RT May 19, IMRT May 20,
\nIMRT May 23, IMRT May 24, IMRT May 25.<\/p>\n