Nell,
He'll become less "resistant" for help as treatment drags on. The mouth sores are just beginning and then there's the side effects from the radiation, which occur later in treatment for most people. Cisplatin is pretty brutal, old school, but effective chemotherapy. The docs wouldn't allow me to do the third one because I was so sick.

I had a peg put in a month ago - the lidocaine shots were the worst - tell him to ask the docs if he could be put under before the shots (they gave me 6 of them). Knowing what I know now, I would have had a peg put in when I was in treatment.