Thank you so much, Pete. I am just learning the terminology but I think my mom is T3N2M0 (Does the N indicate the number of lymph nodes involved?) Your advice on staggering our visits is great. We just found out today that she starts on the 26th so we will plan the first visit during her 3rd week and stagger them throughout. As I have read in many posts, the doctor told her today that the two weeks following treatment are the absolute worst so we will plan to have one of us there at that point as well. Thanks for the copy of David's quote...that helps a lot.

She is getting a PEG but she wants to try not to use it and she said she will practice her swallowing. I can't tell you how glad I am that I registered for this site. Just in the last few hours it prepared me for her appointment today in terms of having some knowledge about the road ahead of her.