Hello, Delly. My radiation was one year ago now. I remember feeling better a couple of weeks after treatment ended. It took months before I was really over it, but yes, at six weeks the skin and mouth had healed. I'm crossing my fingers that your father improves a lot.

At a talk I went to at the hospital, a speech/swallowing therapist showed us how swallowing is affected by the little flap of skin at the back of the throat called the epiglottis. It closes the windpipe during swallowing. Maybe this has been affected by your dad's surgery and is why he has been told not to drink.

I hope you get lots of help and good advice in the coming weeks.

Maureen