I know that it is still early in my treatment.. I have had 2 chemotherapy sessions and those are the easiest for me right now. I will have completed 2 weeks of radiation tomorrow (I started on a Thursday with my first treatment and so out of 35 treatments I will be 10 done and 25 to go).

The Radiation is already starting to tear up my mouth. My taste is not gone, yet… but it taste like I’m sucking on a salt lick. My mouth is burning most of the time and my throat is getting a little sore.

The Chemotherapy that they have me following is not really chemical… it is more a biological. I’m taking Erbitux, which is a mono-clonal antibody that they harvest from mice. The #1 side effect is if you are allergic to it. The pre-meds that they give me feel worst than the actual medication. What it does is stops the cell from reproducing… it will affect all fact growing cells. So, of course it will affect my skin, digestive track (gi track) and nails and hair. They are suppose to start this therapy a week before radiation, but that didn’t happen… no problem.

So far… so good. I’ll write again later to let you all know how its going.

Blessings,

Shadowchilde