Hey! For me I ABSOLUTELY hated that dumb mouth guard! haha! what I did was breathe through my nose and tried to do the hard swallow (swallowing without using your tongue). As radiation goes on, your saliva will become thicker and even more gaggy. Then, go as long as you can breathing through ur nose and then wave ur hands frantically when u start to gag and they'll wait till the end of the zap and come in and un strap you from the table, lower u then u can sit up. I never waited for the lowering, I just flew up, and would puke.

Oh! small tip! keep a bag in your hand so u have something to puke in! And when you get to the stage around week 4 of treatment, when you're not eating or drinking, to get yourself to keep drinking, mark a water bottle by each hour and you have to drink to that mark by that hour. so you have lines all down the bottle marked 9am, 10am, ect. I found this to help motivate me to drink. I made it like a competition. Im very competitive haha!

But this will be the hardest time of your life and just push through it! you guys will be okay in the end! Then you get to have a great survivor story! but please, never lose hope, and never give up! And hey, don't forget to use your cancer card! I convinced my parents to get me an iPad for christmas since my surgery was a few days after christmas haha! Oh! and attitude is a big thing! Try and stay positive! Trust me, you may not feel like it, but there is always someone else pushing through harder times and just as hard times! You can do it! Everyone loves you and supports you!