Make sure he takes plenty of water or other liquid through his PEG tube if he can't swallow much. My husband has passed out twice from being de-hydrated. They just can't drink enough to keep well hydrated through all of this. So get that liquid in through the tube---it's really important.

Caregiver to husband David, non smoker. Dx 1/06 SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV, neck nodes involved. Surgery/Chemo/Rad. Treatment finished 5/06. Waiting. Recurrence in lung, Aug07. 6 months Cisplatin/Erbitux. Spots shrinking after 3 Cisplatin tx.