OP  "OCF Down Under" Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2014 Posts: 40 | It sounds terrible David, not an easy way to live. And yes, one of the pleasures why we eat is taste but if your own health is at stake wouldn't that be incentive to eat? The drive to live � little do I know so it seems.
As a bystander I find it frustrating, hurtful, pulling my hair out in desperation to see someone 'wasting away'. Maybe hypnosis can help to retrain the brain?
Heike
Working caregiver of my husband (51) Simon
03/2014 oropharyngeal cancer, stage IVB, T2N3M0, HPV 16 +
04/2014 Neck dissection - 39 lymph nodes removed, one node positive greater than 6cm, tumour in tonsil reaching into soft palette
28/04/14 begin of treatment
33 x RADS 66 Gy, 33 x chemo cisplatin 13mg each
29/04/14. pick two lines
12/06/14 finished treatment
09/ 14 Pet scan clear
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