Here is a question for the day: Do all of you stay home with your spouse? I can't because I am a teacher and the insurance holder. I am at work from around 8 am to sometimes 3 pm, and while I am gone he doesn't move even to get up and feed himself. He is asleep much of the time, but when he is awake, he can't care for himself at all. So when I return home, he hasn't eaten for HOURS and it makes it so hard to get the quantity of cans and water in him before I go to bed at night. What to do? Today makes two weeks since treatment, and I am sure he has lost weight between the throwing up and the lack of nutrition. Before treatment was over, he didn't throw up and I could put more through his tube. Now he is reluctant to let me put much in.
at a loss on all fronts these days...
Karen...caregiver to husband, 49 yr. former smoker quit 6/14/09. DIAGNOSIS: 6/15/09, SCC BOT prim., + R neck lymph nodes--HPV neg/P16 pos PEG IN: 8/13/09, OUT: ? TREATMENT START: 8/18/09 cisplatin x1, then carboplatin/taxol x5 + 35 rad TREATMENT END: 10/7/09 FOLLOWUP: after Thanksgiving 09
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