Tami, I lost my voice entirely the last week and 1/2 of radiation and for about a week after rad ended. When it came back, it did so VERY gradually at first.

I also vomited "blood-colored stuff" from about week 4 of radiation on until about two weeks after it ended. I think there was a spot in my throat that was just raw and every time I vomited, the scabs over the raw part sloughed off(that spot in my throat, 3 months later, is still hurting and having a hard time healing-not concidentally). The rad oncologist said not to worry about it--that this often happens when you have severe mucositis. And rememeber that a tiny little bit of blood can look like much more when it mixes with other liquid such as phlegm or whatever else she's vomiting up.

As for how much chemo I missed, it's probably hard to compare since I was not doing the same chemo regimen they have your mother on. I was doing cisplatin every three weeks through 33 days (6 and 1/2 weeks) of rad(or that was ideally what would have happened). So I had my first treatment day one of rad, the second should have been day 22 of rad but in fact it was, I think, Day 26 of rad because I was too neutropenic on Day 22. The third one, if everything was on schedule, should have been the beginning of the 7th week of rad(which was when I had just half a week, or 3 days, left of rad), but because of the prior delay, 3 weeks from that delayed date would have made it the day after rad ended. But by that Monday, I was in the hospital with a high fever from an infection and was on IV antibiotics because I was neutropenic, so that would have had to be delayed until *2 and 1/2 weeks* after rad ended which was not worthwhile since the chemo, in this case, is meant to just act as a radiosensitizer (i.e. the chemo makes any cancer cells you have more suscpetible to death from the radiation.) Since by 2 and 1/2 weeks after rad, the effects of rad are just beginning to wear off, it didn't make sense to anyone to inflict more chemo on me. Including me. :rolleyes: