Thanks everyone for all the wonderful tips. I will give it a try. As for feedings, I have the feeding tube and can't take anything by mouth yet. Tried swallowing water and juice but it's extremely painful. Tried to stay on top on the feeding and is on a schedule of every 2 hours. Dietician suggest Isosource and have been on it since day one. Would dilute it in a 16 oz water bottle so half water half formula and flush before and after water. Its exactly a month since radiation ended and thought the mouth problems would get better. Started the first series of chemo last Tuesday--that was a pain-survived through that. They sent me home with the machine for four straight days-yes that thing was running for 4 days. I have to more rounds of chemo one in Feb and last one in March. So, not looking forward to it........