WD,

I am one of the people that got worse after treatment. First couple of weeks in were a breeze. Last week and 2-3 weeks after were pretty bad. One of the quotes around this board has been, although everyone is different, it's usually "one month of recovery for every week of rad" although the recovery comes in stages of slowly getting better. It really needs to be judged in days not months or weeks.

We each respond differently.

Guess I don't understand why at your mother's age and if I remember right low weight the doctors did not recommend a peg tube? I know I didn't have one, but seems as she would be a prime canidate??

Right now she needs all the help she can get for nutrition to aid in healing and as Mark said, dehydration is a big worry and can lead to more problems.

Sorry, no answer on the medicine. I was given a liquid called pink magic, Pepto, lidocaine and benedryl(sp) It numbed my throat before every bite.

Good luck,
Dinah