What is the major issue with your Dad? Is it nausea, mucositis (mouth sores), inability to swallow (dysphagia), or....???? Each of these individual issues can be addressed and remedied.

For what it's worth, I am 7 weeks post radiation and am still struggling with nutrition. I've been living on Ensure and some weight gain stuff I got at the health food store for over two months now. I had to have someone drive me daily for IV hydration for about 3 weeks (at the end of and immediately following radiation).

Today has been especially difficult. So far, I've thrown up 3x this morning and am trying to get down one can of Ensure this afternoon. You will feel worse if you don't get hydration and some nutrition.

Despite all this, my weight loss to date is under 28 lbs., and I did not have a PEG tube. I don't know what to say except that others here have been down this road and report that it does get better. That's my hope and inspiration.

Riley