Thanks everyone for your kind and encouraging words. It's been 1 month today since rad treatments finished and I think I am slowly starting to improve now. Still in pain but being managed quite well with meds. Eating is still ridiculous and I've lost quite a bit of weight but I'm trying to shovel food in whenever I can. I can notice a slight improvement in the pain so hopefully this is the start of the real recovery. Just gotta take each day as it comes and be thankful for the little things - like being able to taste flavours again. I'll get there but my gosh do I wish it would hurry up.