The mucus problem was something else when I was at the end of the radiation treatments and for several weeks after. I gag real easily and it frustrated me that I would gag, cough and then throw up an entire tube feeding, which wasn't pleasant.

Even now, sometimes I'll have a mucous type episode, I'll gag and try to throw up whatever is in my stomach.

Then again, I've always been a gagger. My husband knows it's a miracle that I was able to change the kids diapers. When the dog or one of them threw up though, I'd be right next to them throwing up myself.

It's one of the reasons I was NEVER a good alcohol drinker. I learned to accept that and just didn't appreciate alcohol the way most people did. It wasn't worth the puke fest.

Lately when I get all gaggy and wretching, I try to calm myself down and get a cold washcloth and do mental exercises to just STOP before I lose a tube feeding or medication. It doesn't always work, but I try to hold it together.

Jen