Sherry,
I so agree with Gary. Dan also started out at 25 and ended up at 100 or 150. He also had Oxycodone for breakthru pain and probably one or two other meds. About the three week treatment time is when Dan really started having bowel trouble from the strong meds. Watch for that and there are different regimens to try. Dan suffered for a whole day practically on the floor in pain from not being able to go to the bathroom. It kind of happened suddenly and we were not given any instructions about that problem until he was in the middle of it.
Take care and God bless,
Debbie

Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.