Michele, right now you need to focus on getting enough nutrition to heal your battered body. Im glad you had some high protein powder on hand. Why not mix it into your choc milk? Its very important to maintain high protein/calorie balanced diet now to speed your recovery. It would be a great idea to begin using the high protein powder right away. To recover, it will take your body one month for every week of radiation.

Please watch your intake very carefully just like when you were going thru tx. Oral cancer is not the way to diet. I lost 65 pounds and that was with using a feeding tube. Most days I got between 2500 and 6000 calories. I drank alot of choc peanut butter milkshakes, they were very high in calories. Even with getting extra calories, I still was hospitalized twice for malnutrition and dehydration. Im now 3 1/2 yrs post my original cancer and still have not gained any weight back. Sure everyone is different but most of us have lost quite a few pounds without trying.

Keep up the good work with eating.