Hello! My name is Jennel, Jenny as my dad would call me! My dad is who im asking help for. He was diagnosed with oral cancer early in the year, stage III I think, maybe if he is reading this he can join up and tell us a little about himself. He is about 8 weeks post radiation/chemo treatments. He had radiation daily mon-fir for 7-1.2 weeks and chemo once weekly although he did miss a couple chemo treatments due to being so sick. The thing is, is that he is still feeling verrrrry terrible. Last week he went to the hospital becuase he was vomiting so much and began to vomit blood. They did a test that just showed that he was swallowing blood from his esaphagus making him ill and also reflux. He has a feeding tube. He said that his mouth sores and mucositis is getting better a little bit and maybe his throat also, but now he is still nasuated and sick often. he doesn't do much in the way of mouth wash or anything. he has been depressed and very scared of dying and very scared that he is never going to get better. we do not know the results of the chemo/radiation yet, but were given about an 80% chance of kickin the cancer in the butt before treatment began. he does not smoke and has not for about 15 yrs.
i thought maybe this forum may help him in many ways. maybe you all have ideas of your own that may make him feel better if we can get him to try other things. Or have some words of encouragement to help his state of mind, because i believe that maybe if you feel in you mind that you are not going to get better than it plays a roll on your rehabilitation.
I also had a question about the reflux and his feeling nasuated all the time, do you think maybe he needs something a little thicker in consistency in his tube to keep things down?