The Taber Family Blog

Well today was my first Dr.’s appointment in a quite a while and I met with Dr. Woolf in Fairfield. The appointment went well and he poked and prodded my mouth like a real pro. Ouch!! He jammed his finger back into my tonsil and said he was glad he felt nothing out of the normal back there and I took that to be good news. He also snaked that remote camera down my nose and throat again, yuck. He said from the back of my throat down to my vocal chords, there’s just a slight redness and it looked fine. But that my mouth, tongue and some other areas are still pretty swollen. No surprise there. He scheduled a follow-up Pet CT scan for July 3rd in hopes that any swelling in my mouth would have subsided by then.

I’ve been still dealing with an extremely sensitive wound area alongside my tongue, which at this point is the only thing keeping me from eating some solid foods. He said it didn’t look like thrush, but seemed more indicative of mucusitis, and if I kept up with the swish and swallow, I’d be in better shape pretty soon. I hope so, because I’m about at my wit’s end with this crappy Ensure, soup and protein shake diet. In fact it get’s monotonously depressing sometimes.

Another thing that’s come up as of late last week is a real sense of fatigue throughout the day. My energy level has dropped off a cliff. I feel like napping all day, and sometimes barely see the need to even get out of bed (just this past weekend). Seems like this change in energy happened almost overnight last week. I thought maybe I was sick with the flu or a cold, but I wasn’t at all. I know my caloric intake hasn’t changed, but I’m wondering if something in my blood chemistry has. So after my appointment with Dr. Woolf, I went to Northbay and had my blood drawn for testing.