| Assistant Admin Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | It is a lot for the patient to process -- the fact that he has cancer, the fact that the treatment is going to be tough, etc -- it is also hard before treatment begins to even imagine how it will feel like. Give him the information in small doses so that you will have a better chance of getting through to him.
In the meantime, take him out for meals or cook his favorite meals for him. Fatten him up in preparation for the treatment. It will also be a while before he can eat his favorites again.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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