Throat Cancer

DIAGNOSIS An examination of the neck and throat may show cancers of the throat. The sputum (spit) may appear bloody, a biopsy is mandatory for analysis and is often done in conjunction with an inspectiom through a viewing tube (laryngoscopy) of the larynx, lungs, and esphagus.

TREATMENT

The treatment varies according to the stage of the disease, digree of malignancy, type of tumor, age and general health of patient. Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are the mainstages of treatment. Please call your doctor if you have any of the above symptoms. Throat cancer can be cured if detected early.

MY STORY Part2

As I stated in my last article I had a total hysterectomy, which include the removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, the ovaries and cervix. Hysterectomys can be done vaginally (if a previous pregnany has occured) or an incision from the belly button down.I had the latter done. Wtih a total hysterectomy your period will ceases and you may enter a surgically induced menopause, in which I did. That evening after my surgery, my nurse had me up and walking. As I began my slow one foot at a time movement I winced in pain, I was sure each and every one of my staples in my incision had torn open. Obviously they didn't because it was bandaged. As if that wasn't bad enough, heaven forbid a patient with a stomach wound has to cough. My nurse made me a "little pillow" out of a towel and taped it into a square and put a "smiley face" and other silly things on it. For a brief moment I thought I was on the psychiatric floor instead of the gyn/oncology floor. Seriously, she told me when I needed to cough (which ofcourse they wanted us to do) hold the pillow firmly over the incision so the staples don't come out. The first couple of coughs I got the message and didn't think that "littlePillow" was so silly after all. I was on a gyn/onco floor and the nurses want the women who could to walk. On this floor the nurses station is in the middle and the rooms in a circle around it, the goal is to get us walking around that circle more (many more) times before being released. Okay picture this, three or four sometimes more or less women. Pushing an I.V. pole in one hand and our

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