The Taber Family Blog

And things were going so well!

Anyway for about the past 4 days, my mouth has really started hurting. I’m having sharp and dull pains all together for nearly the entire day and it’s been making it hard to sleep. I’m not sure what’s going on, but the pain seems to be along the sides of my tongue and near the tumor site, so I’m thinking I’ve got some form of thrush or the makings of an infection starting. In any case this is the first real pain I’ve had since the initial biopsy and I’m not embarrassed to say it can bring me to tears occasionally since it feels like a thousand tiny razorblades slicing the sides of my tongue. I’ve contacted Dr. Vikstrom for an opinion, but in the mean time I’ve started think I may have brought this on myself by not being entirely consistent with the swish and swallow medication each day.

Fooling myself into thinking the healing was going well, I cut back on my swish and swallows each day and I’m thinking with the nightly build-up of mucus and going longer between the swish and swallows has allowed the thrush to occur. So I’ve really been consistent with it for the last two days and the use of a new radiotherapy medication mixture I’ve been taking just before eating has helped as well. I think I’m tipping the scales back the other way now and the pain has started to lessen.

By the way, I got out of the house last night and did some drumming with my band. It felt great to play music once again. My minimal daily caloric intake caused me to run out gas a bit earlier than I’d hoped, but I had a great time playing.

Weight holding steady at 195 lbs.