Hi David, Christine and All,

Thanks once again for encouraging me to share whatever possible for making his pain lessen.

As posted in reply "Cheryld" has guessed it correct. We all within our family decided not to go with the treatment last December.

Now, as said by one of the pathologists who is a family doctor as well, his lower jaw is completely affected with cancer ( if we physically see him, it would look as if its just very loose ). As recently he is suffering more we thought we would get some suggestions from the dentists and consulted a few.

Most of them suggested not to do anything further like removal of teeth, rather they clearly suggested nothing can be done except taking care of him. Some dentists though say that the lower teeth which are 8 in number out of which 5 are dentures (artificial) can be removed. One of our closet doctor came in with suggestion to consult another dentist, where he also declined to go with doing anything further with the removal of lower teeth.

Now, there are three concerns for us:

1) He is finding difficulty in swallowing. He is able to do it, but sometimes reluctant in taking food - (food in form of thin paste). We can imagine what he is going through but unable to do anything further !!

Please advice..

2) As told earlier, he is a patient of dementia (he hardly recognizes few within our family by seeing our faces). He is hardly sleeping for few minutes. (less than two hours - and with much difficulty) He has hardly any energy left over, and continuously roams throughout the day and particularly in night. We are always asking him and trying him to make him sleep but our efforts going in vain.

Kindly advice how to make him rest for sometime (do we need to go for medication in particular, or should we be asking anything in particular about this with the doctors). Doctors have been giving pills but they doesn't seem to work.

3) In December last, the concerned Oncologists said without treatment he would have six months in hand. Do anybody over here suggests for any kind of treatment for him at this stage.

Please give your inputs.

And Christine,

Could you let me know what are these medicines for - Could you please elaborate me. I couldn't get the following in particular "hot showers".

And sorry for posting this all this long in single post, would try to make short from next time.