Hyperbaric treatment should have all the letters in “hyper” capitalized, except maybe the “r.” And considering how I felt the night before my first treatment, maybe that “r” should capitalized and bolded too. in another post I’ll explain why some of hyperbaric is just hype. But right now I’m going to focus on the positive [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Welcome to Hyperbarics, tagged dental implants, Denton Wound Center, esophageal cancer, necrosis, nowitski, Nowitsy, radiation, supra glottal cancer, throat cancer on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of radiation’s side effects, necrosis is the most dangerous, leading to a miserable death worse than the one I could have with the cancer itself. Necrosis is basically the rotting of the jaw bone. I’d sacrificed my teeth to reduce that risk. Now, a year later, on some poor advice, I’d inadvertently squared the risk [...]
Read Full Post »
ecause anything you put on the internet stays there forever, when I say “I am forever grateful,” this post will be the proof.
Cancer in someone else elicits fear (it could be me), gratitude (thank God it’s not me), pity (you poor thing), and compassion (what can I do?). Of these, pity is the emotion I [...]
Read Full Post »
Besides choking and flying teeth, dentures brought other challenges. Usually the lower plate felt good, for an hour. Then something would change in my mouth and it would begin involuntarily snapping, like a turtle, causing me to bite my tongue or the inside of my jaw. Sometimes the lower dentures felt like a brick, and [...]
Read Full Post »
I have had so many inquiries about my hyperbaric treatment that I’m going to once again break the rules and dump chronology. I’m also going to break this story into several parts as it’s a bit on the extended side.
As you know if you’ve followed my treatment, an early sacrifice was all my teeth. It [...]
Read Full Post »
