Jenna, hang in there, if I can, you can!

Good idea about the liquid diet, right now, I have to swish lidocane, wait a few minutes, and then eat and drink. Without the lidocane, can't eat or drink without excruciating pain. Also, things get stuck in my craw...even the pain pill--very unsettling. I'm going to switch to liquid pain meds tomorrow, as well as shop around for the liquid food (Boost, Ensure, or the Carnation stuff you mention).

Anne-Marie, good call on switching the meds around...it's strange but I think that to be the case with me also. My program now is rinse with water/baking soda/salt mixture, magic mouthwash or an OTC wash to relieve pain. The pain meds aren't strong enough to handle this on their own...when eating drinking, I then add the lidocane.

I have the humidifier on and have switched to sleeping upright.


Oh well, the break is over, not much relief from having 4 days off-still in pain, sores still there, and heading to the treatment room tomorrow morning. That's the bad news, the good news is that after tomorrow I'll be more than halfway done.

Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas,

Oscar