I'd like to expand for a moment on what Marie said about shakes as meal replacements. I had a conversation with my RO on this subject, and he cheerfully advised me to stay on them as long as I liked as long as I made sure to get enough every day. Healing is a high-energy activity.

Anyway, I was on them for more than 90 days. I was fortunate in that I totally lost my sense of taste very early in the process, so I was able to drink Jevity (the canned formula used to feed patients with a PEG (feeding tube)), and my RO just happened to have a couple of cases left over from a Patient who never wanted to see the stuff again. smile

(I was less fortunate in keeping it down, due to the extreme nausea from Cisplatin, but that is not a problem related to or caused by the liquid, as opposed to solid, nutrition.)

Best of luck to your dad, he's lucky to have you in his corner!

My intro: http://oralcancersupport.org/forums/ubbt...3644#Post163644

09/09 - Dx OC Stg IV
10/09 - Chemo/3 Cisplatin, 40 rad
11/09 - PET CLEAN
07/11 - Dx Stage IV C. (Liver)
06/12 - PET CLEAN
09/12 - PET Dist Met (Liver)
04/13 - PET CLEAN
06/13 - PET Dist Met (Liver + 1 lymph node)
10/13 - PET - Xeloda ineffective
11/13 - Liver packed w/ SIRI-Spheres
02/14 - PET - Siri-Spheres effective, 4cm tumor in lymph-node
03/15 - Begin 15 Rads
03/24 - Final Rad! Woot!
7/27/14 Bart passed away. RIP!