Day 10 - one trauma on top of the other on the of the other ..

It's tough if you don't feel any immediate pain but feel more and more tired every day. Maybe today wasn't such a good day because I had to acknowledge I'm losing weight - 2 1/2 kg so far. I thought I'm eating a lot but apparently not enough. On top of it I had no appetite today and even without mentioning anything my neck, nose and ear specialist, whom I met today again, preached to me I should eat as much as possible. Independent of my appetite and if I can't eat enough I should get liquid food asap. With a smile he advised to drink the food cold because it wouldn't taste.

As said my tongue tissues are irritated - it's called mucositis and I've already reached grade 3 out of 3. On a positive note , my throat isn't infected yet. He also believes that the knot in my tongue (stopped being painful a few days ago) might most likely not be a remaining tumor. He was talking about a salivary gland in the tongue that might have become irritated from the surgery. Hmm, I didn't know there is such a gland in the tongue itself. Need to check on this.

He also mentioned: If I would respond to the radiation therapy the lymph nodes in my size (1 cm x 1.4 cm) will be gone most likely after 2/3 of the therapy. This is all based on past experience and might be different from case to case.

Tomorrow I'll see the radiation oncologist. I'm still keeping the work out up. Yesterday I went for an 15km run with 450m alltitude difference. While I'm working out I feel great. The good feeling ususally lasts for two hours post the work out.


Breakfast

• 3 slices of bread with jam
• yogurt
• 2 cups of green tea

Lunch

• nothing

Dinner

• muesli
• 1 slice of plum cake