Congrats on finishing your treatments, Don!!!

Keep up the good nutrition and hydration for at least the next year to help your body to recover. Its really important to becoming healthy again. Im sure that by your pushing yourself to take in enough water and calories it has helped get you thru everything easier. Great job with avoiding the dreaded peg tube! Now just keep eating and drinking!

The next 2 or 3 weeks will still be difficult. Rads keep working even though you have finished. But after that you should slowly begin to have some better days and begin to feel a little more like your old self.

You probably have some mouth sores. Keep rinsing your mouth with 16 oz warm water, 2 tsp baking soda and 2 tsp salt. If it burns omit or cut back on the salt. If you dont already have it you can ask your doc for magic mouthwash to help numb your mouth so you can eat easier.

Most of us got a thick ropey phlegm for the first 3 or 4 weeks after finishing rads. Its hard to cough it all out so some would get suctioned out at the doctors or got a prescription for a portable suction machine. The thick gunk will soon be replaced by dry mouth. Thats will continue for a very long time while you recover. Some people never get back their full saliva and will take pilocarpine. It takes a few weeks for it to work and the side effects of it are sweating which doesnt always work out so well in the summer. It didnt work for me (since girls dont sweat LOL).

Rest, you have been thru the war and your body is worn out and needs to rest. Its ok to do very light exercising but be careful not to overdo it right now.

Good luck!!!