Linda,
It's been 3 weeks for me since the last of 30 treatments. I started trying to eat solids within a few days. I never did go to a tube, so I've been drinking all along. My cancer was in my left jaw. I had 17 hours of surgery in June where they removed about 40% of my jaw and rebuilt it with fibula from my leg and a free flap graft from my arm.
I did have all of my treatment at the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary, ALberta. It is a fantastic facility, one of the best in the country. A lot of the surgical procedures they used on me were developed by Doctors at the Tom Baker, and I had a couple of them on my team, so I couldn't have gotten better treatment anywhere.
Interestingly, a man I met during treatment is the CEO of a large U.S. company, and could have been treated anywhere he wanted. He chose the Baker center, which says a lot for it.