Thank you all! I am feeling pretty good in myself, just a bit battered physically. My therapy centre are great about fluids and push 3 Ltrs through IV every Thursday, plus additional if needed. I'm on sustagen and resolve to boost protein. The blisters have worsened significantly today and I am bleeding at every rinse. I got the ringing in my ears Christine, but it was the loss of/blurry vision that made the decision to call last weeks chemo off. My surgical margins were clear (4mm) and only one micro metastasis in neck so I don't fit traditional guidelines for chemo anyway, my surgeon is just being aggressive with what was an aggressive cancer. I got horrible thrush and mucositis in hospital after my surgery and I found this forum during a late night desperate web search and found the tip re: club soda - been using it since. It's getting a bit too sore now though. My RT was talking about a naso-gastric tube last week, I think it may go in when he sees me on Tuesday. It's almost impossible to keep my nutrition up at the moment, and I know it's important.