Hi, and also congrats on your husband on finishing treatment.

The first 10 to 14 days your husband probably will be in a lot of pain, but it does get better, really it does. In my case, the pain got so bad I wound up having to stop radiation for a week and be admitted back into the hospital for introvenous tube feeding, re-hydration, and was on morphine for a week. Conttrast to the second time I've gone through this, they didn't have to nuke my tongue, just my neck on the opposite side from the first time, and other than a lot of little irritaing side effects, not much of a big dea.

Don't have any experience with the PEG tube, didn't get one either time, but as Dinah said, do a search and you probably will find the answer you are looking for. I know my stomach doesn't like chocolate Ensure very well, but I can do the vanilla ok. I don't know if its' standard practice to do PEG tube foods at room temperature, but if the liquid is cold, can cause problems also I would suspect.

Anyway, Like I said earlier, it does get better, beleive it or not. As bad as I was, 4 weeks after I finished I was able to go back to work half days.

SCC Tongue, stage IV diagnosed Sept, 2002, 1st radical neck dissection left side in Sept, followed by RAD/Chemo. Discovered spread to right side nodes March 2003, second radical neck dissection April, followed by more RAD/Chemo.