Delia -
You are among good company here. The thick mucous is horrible - but fairly common with the treatment. For several weeks, Kenny could not eat or drink much of anything (even water 'burned'). Don't wait for the doctor appointments to get different medications. The medical oncology staff is the very best to take quick action for calling in Rx. For Kenny, the nausea was very advanced and never ending. A combination of anti-nausea drugs finally worked. For the mucous - check out the information in "currently in treatment" - I believe there are some good ideas listed there. While nothing is guaranteed to work - sometimes just 'trying something' helps everyone's spirits. I think there is a suggestion for soda water (tonic water) to use as a gargle.

Regarding pain, again it took a combination of drugs to help ease Kenny's pain. He has a very high pain tolerance and it took a lot of medication to make a dent in the pain level for him. Kenny ended up with an extremely high dose of Hydrocodine (a cousin of Oxycodin) plus Morphine. Many of the medications for pain & nausea come in liquid form - ask your doctor to be sure to write the Rx for liquid. The liquids can be easily administered through the Peg Tube. Also - you can crush the tablets and mix with water to take them through the PEG tube. This was the only way Kenny could take many of his meds when the mucous was at it's worse.

I don't mean to ramble on -- just wanted to send along a few suggestions.

I'm sending positive thoughts and prayers for strength --
Carol