Brian, congrats on finishing your treatments!!! recovery can be a very long frustrating process full of ups and downs. Seems like every time you begin to feel like you are finally getting better another setback sneaks up on you and boots you back a few steps. This will be part of the "new normal" recovery phase. In time you will have more good days than bad ones. Just take it one day at a time.

What you can do to help speed up your recovery is to focus on your intake even more now. Your intake should be the minimums of 2500 calories and extra water of 64-80 oz daily. If you can push yourself to take in even more calories like 3500 daily that will help your recovery even more. If you add some high protein whey powder to your beverages that will help with healing too. Check that one with your doc, ask him about high protein helping with your healing. By taking in lots of water it will help thin that thick ropey mucous and help you to get rid of the hunks you are coughing up. Believe it or not, thats fairly common. Wish I had a buck for even time I coughed up those big hunks of gunk, I would be a rich woman If the thick gunk becomes too much you can ask your doc for a prescription to get a portable suction machine to use at home. Also ask the nurse to suction the gunk out when you go for check ups. Its a temporary fix but it will help.

Hang in there, very soon you will begin to feel like you have started to turn the corner and made some progress. Only a couple more weeks til you walk out of that tunnel.