Different treatments, diffferent people, different healing times. For sure you need to keep working towards a normal eating life, at least your new normal. But you need to go there at your pace. Having a tube hanging out of you isn't going to change the world as far as moving forward. WHEN you are sure you can get ALL the nutrition you need via your mouth, THEN it is time to have it out. In my own experience that was a LONG time after the end of treatments. But I kept working at soups, soft eggs, chilled canned peach slices by the gallon, and eventually one day I realized I coud get my 2000 calories a day without it. Your body will tell you when - not your doctors and not anyone on this board. Just keep working on getting back into life, in your daily activities, your ability to exercise (slowly at first), your ability to fend off infections, your ability to work part time, then full time... all this takes time. Just like eating real food. Set your own goals - go at a speed that works for you.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.