Hi paul,
great to hear from you
i start my last week tomorrow at Winthrope in Garden City 200 miles round trip from Montauk and boy am i over it! I hope that some of the info i gave Pam can help, the Juven is very helpful with my mouth sores and the Mucus the CoQ-10 has also been helpful.
I have tonsil cancer and and as with you sergery was not an option for it too close to the cardic artery so I am doing 40 radition treatments at GC and 6 cysplatin as well
i am glad the chemo is over not that it is great but it is a little less horible now that that is a week ago.
I have bben totally fouused on when this will get better and so far have heard that it takes about three weeks to feel better and each day a little better. The peg tube will need to be in till you get a negative PET scan
and are eating well enough to put the weight on you have lost. I have lost 22lbs to date but I still am getting down some real food everyday. From the three weeks it gets better but it will take a long time for things like saliva and taste buds if we even get them back?? that is my big concern but as I have tried to say the whole way "It Is What It Is" some people say that it takes one month of recovery for every week of radiation so I am looking at 8 months to get back in too shape????
scrambled eggs in the morning and some paste and chicken broth in the evening and small can of pears have been easy to get down as well, even when it is tough i do the pergoct and then just push even if it takes over a hour..
nice to meet lets keep in touch and we will get threw this Hell
john