My husband finished his 41 rad/chemo treatments today thankfully, and we want express our appreciation to everyone, especially Marica for your support. It was the longest 2 months of our lives, but now we look forward to recovery. Our experience was a little different it seems, he handled the treatments as well as possible the first 4 weeks, but it rapidly deteriorated at that point. On top of the dehydration, lack of nutrition, etc. he developed an infection and high fever, so after 8 hrs in the ER we were finally admitted. Everyday in the hospital there were mistakes made with his medications, tests etc. so for a week he was not getting better, he apparently was very close to being in a coma. We stayed with him 24 hrs a day for that first week, it was probably harder on us than on him. I've learned hospitals can be dangerous places, so if you or your loved one must go, pay close attention to everything that goes on and be a strong advocate, and leave as soon as you are able. He was in for 2 weeks; once he was home he started to improve, and the remainder of his treatments were tolerated better, except for the last 2 days, but that was due to him receiving double treatments on those days due to lost time. Overall the worst part of treatment for him was in the middle rather than the end of his course of treatment. Now we're wondering what others have experienced in terms of how long the pic line will remain in, how long on strong pain killers? Thank you so much for helping us through it.