Walt

Marvin had about the same symptoms that your wife did and we did the same route. He is stage 4a also on the bottom of his tongue. We are starting our 4th week of rad and chemo. He had a really tough four days last week. He was constipated aslo and was even having trouble urinating. I didnt find this out until we were at the chemo treatment this tuesday and he started to sweat. He also had trouble keeping any cans of boost down. They gave him extra fluids with his chemo and had him take milk of magnesia every 3-1/2 hrs until something happened. It took about 14 hrs before we got any results. We felt like having a party we were so happy. Since then he has been able to keep the boost down and I have started putting more water down the tube also. I was putting things in to fast and found that it takes about 10 mins for 8 oz of boost to go in. Marvin has to have 7 cans to maintane his weight. That has been a challenge with having to drive 60 miles for rad everyday and then they run behind but we have managed this week to get in 7 each day. We too have lots of people praying for marvin which is a great comfort. Even though we don't know why Marvin has to go though this we know it is in Gods hands and at some point we may find the answer as to why. You will find a wealth of information from all on this board. It has helped me out lots of time. My prayer list gets longer everday with the people we meet here and where we go for treatment.