Thanks, I will ask for the portable suction unit. I started IV fluids once last week and then on Tuesday this week. I'm going to ask to go again tomorrow since I can't drink execpt for very small sips of water.
As for calories, I was getting about 375 in a day..but now I can barely get a few sips of any kind of protein drink. I decided I could do without the feeding tube early in treatment now regret that...I talked to my doctor yesterday and he thought the fluids would get me through so I wouldn't have to do the feeding tube this late in treatment.
My cancer is in my tongue but it spread to both sides of my neck in my lymph nodes...
Belinda Jo- Age 28 non-smoker, casual wine drinker, original tx 5/09, T3/N2 (now N0)/M0, 2 tongue surgeries partial glossectomy, Rad x 35 treatment began 7/8/09, no chemo, neck dissection 11/25 revealed 12 benign nodes!
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