The visiting nurse can actually administer the fluids in your home. The IV needle, once in, can stay in the hand for a few days so that the rounds of IV can be completed. Talk to your doctor about your choices, sometimes things are less complicated than they seem at first.

Stacey, I am 2 months post radiation just like your husband. This is my second rad treatment and unless You have lived it It is hard to explain why we still feel so bad. There are days I can hardly get out of bed. I feel worse today then I did a month ago. I can take stock in the fact that for now I am cancer free but it does not take away the slow recovery. There are days when I think I am turning the corner and then...WAM...fell like hell.
Like me ,unfortunately he has to pull himself up by the boot straps and take stock in his own actions and recovery. I think because we both feel so bad , its is human nature to try to get people to feel sorry for us. My wife does not play that game so when I am in the self pity mode I am in it alone.
I get lots of help and support from the great folks here. He is the one that should be asking questions, and getting support from those that have been in his shoes and experienced the battle of radiation.
Sorry to be so hard but It is an individual battle. Steve Hurlock

Thanks again for the advice. He agreed to go in for an IV for the next 3 days and is ok with me calling his Doctors tomorrow. He did not disagree with me about a nose feeding tube or PEG. He stopped the Gatorade due to a tangy taste and ate almost zero today plus little water. Hopefully, we can improve the situation tomorrow.

That's an encouraging sign -- his agreeing to go for an IV and to get a feeding tube. Maybe he is feeling really awful. Stacey, you have been very persistent in your efforts to get him support. Being a caregiver is very hard work and often very frustrating. Now, do take care of yourself and make sure you eat and get plenty of rest too.

There are prescription medications, and OTC vitamins to increase the appetite..Marinol, megace, decadron, testosterone, insulin, melatonin, omega 3 fish oil, amino acids, wine, caffeine, but check with the doctor. Adding more fats to the diet will increase appetite, taste, lack of fullness, add more calories. Carbs will fill you sooner that fats will, and who can ever eat one chip or a nut. Adding oil to a drink can be done easily, a little sugar more so in it's effect or misting food with a sprayer may help with both swallowing, but also appetite, taste. Milk, creams, butter have the same effect. He may also have a food, taste aversion from associating the nausea with eating, vomiting from treatment, and may need to be deconditioned.