Wilkes East resident, Gail Anderson (with husband, Andy) conducts a video chat with her great-granddaughter, something she couldn't do for months after cancer surgery. Source: Michael LLoyd, The Oregonian |
Patients' needs often go unmet, and caregivers try to figure out how to help after treatment is done.
by Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian (12/10/2008)
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The first sign of trouble came when Gail Anderson's voice began to fail.
"There was no way I could yell. My husband liked that," she said. But a biopsy confirmed what she suspected and feared. She had throat cancer. The only option for survival was a harrowing surgical procedure to remove the tumor -- and her voice box.
"I was in sheer panic for three weeks," Anderson said. But the worst was yet to come.