Thank you so much for your words of advice and encouragement. This can all get so overwhelming so fast.

Young Frack - I went right out and got some Cacao powder. He was good at the beginning about natural food smoothies and juicing - but since his hospitalization he just hasn't been motivated. I got him to have a smoothie this morning - so small progress there!

CG to dad (63, ex-smoker) stage 4 SSC tongue. Surgery 7/12. 14/77 + node w some broken encapsulation. Tx 6 wkly cisp, 35 IMRT. Clinical trial panitumumab. Wk 5, blood counts fell. Tx stopped. Hospitalized 11 days. Revised Tx (no clinical trial, cisp to carbo). Counts fell. Stopped chemo. No PEG.