I am down to my last radiation session on Monday. I stopped going to the gym a week ago as I was feeling a bit run down and did not want to push things. I lost about ten pounds and feel that I am very fortunate that I have not had to take any painkillers. Though I have been taking Tylenol PM to help be sleep better at night. The throat is a bit sore, but I guess that is expected at this stage. I can eat most non-spicy/acidic soup and have oatmeal with bananas for breakfast.

I supplement that with Chocolate protein shakes two to three times per day. Recipe is as follows:

Chocolate Why Protein - 1 scoop
Glutamine - 2 tbs
One raw egg
either Swiss Chard or kale
raw almond butter - 2 tbs
Chocolate Hemp Milk
4-5 Ice cubes
Mix it up very well in a blender.

Radiologist says that I can expect to go hard in the gym in aprox 3 weeks. I will give you all an update in a week to let you know how I am feeling


50 yr old, male
SCC of Lymph node right side of neck - 6/30/11
Biopsy: 8/23/2011
MND Right side- 9/19/2011 - 18 nodes - 17 clear
T1N1M0 source on right tonsil tissue
HPV+
IMRT 33 sessions started 10/18/11. Finished 12/5/11
No Chemo