Thank you Christine and David. Your experience is invaluable to my husband and me. It's funny, I woke up this morning with one goal in mind: push the water on him. I have read repeatedly about how dehydration makes one feel so much worse. He just stopped taking food by mouth last week. He has been trying to drink water but I'm mostly hydrating him through his PEG. He keeps telling me that the mucous is so thick down his throat that it's nearly impossible to swallow. I think that's a bigger issue for him than the pain. He didn't do very well with the swallow test earlier on in treatment. His tongue was pretty weakened by the tumor at its base. I know he will be going through swallow therapy. He chokes quite a bit on water.

Thank you for reaching out to me. I think it will make him feel better just knowing that what he's experiencing is normal and he WILL get through this.