Hi there- I know this is the hardest part. I am glad you have the feeding tube. Almost everyone loses thier apetite for some time due to the reaction to the radiation and the chemo therapy. I did too. Try and be patient and let the process happen. Soon you will be on the path to healing but you wil have some valleys to walk through first. The radiation and chemo kills cancer cell and even the good ones so it will take awhile for that process to happen. Everyone is a little different in how they react to the treatment and how they heal from the treatment too. I got my sense of taste and smell back slowly a month or so after treatment ended and I had to learn to eat again. I had 90% of my tongue removed. I only have a smal amount of the base of my tongue left. It was a big challenge but I eat almost everything I want to now. It took a lot of hard work and patience and I was very very lucky in how I recovered from the surgery.

Hang in there. I know this is incredibly difficult to go through. This is a very difficult cancer - the side effects of the treatments and the ramifications of these drastic surgeries are really something.

Stya positive and just le the medicine work for now and then when you start to heal slowly each day try and make a little progress. Its hard but you can do it.

KATE