Sleeping with your head slightly elevated helps, using a humidifier will as well. Keep up the higher calories and water intake for at least the next year. Recovery can take a long time, pushing yourself to make the daily minimums will help your body to rebuild itself. Every day take in at least 2500 calories and 48-64 oz of water. If you can take in more calories it can only help. Extra water will help thin the mucous too. Adding some high protein whey powder to your diet helps with healing too.

Pat the cream on your radiation burns very gently. Never rub your sensitive burned skin. If using silver sulfadine cream, a little goes a long way. Pat a thin layer on and let it soak in.

Hang in there! Its a long road but soon you will begin to feel like you are finally beginning to get better.

Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile