similar but different... I had a pick line installed a few weeks ago. I now spend 45 minutes a day giving myself IV antibiotics. So far so good. The redness is subsiding and the swelling is gone. I am scheduling for Hyperbaric treatment to try and fight the osteo radio necrosis = bone death that my jaw is suffering. The really nice thing about the IV is that the meds do not affect my stomach. Good luck to you and your Dad.

11/1999 SCC tongue - surgery
1/2000 Met(s) in lymph nodes - modRND
2/2000-4/2000 RT ~6 weeks
end of 2006 SCC tongue - surgery
1/2008 SCC BOT - surgery / PEG installed
2/2008 chemo & RT
4/2008 last time I consumed solid food by mouth