Hi --

Well, back from Hopkins and Barry now has his PEG tube inserted -- not too happy at the moment as it hurts (which he expected) but otherwise OK. Taking Percoset. He is not using the tube now of course, and hopefully not for some time, but we decided it was better to get it in rather than wait until he was losing weight and was feeling bad due to the cumulative effects of the chemoradiation.

He also had to have new fluoride trays made -- rather funny, sort of embarrassing for Hopkins, his were done, sitting on the counter for him and disappeared ("misplaced") -- the nurse and I hoped that some other "Cooper" isn't walking around wondering why his trays don't fit. Anyway the new ones will be ready for his radiation walk-through tomorrow. We will also meet with our chemo nurse to go over tube care, flushing, dressing change etc.

Another long day -- and so it begins...

Gail