Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | If he doesn't drink anything, he is going to get dehydrated and land in the hospital anyway. He should be getting at least 2000+ calories a day. He can do this on Ensure Plus, Carnation VHC or whatever. It doesn't have to be food, per se. I didn't have a peg and lived on Ensure Plus and water for several weeks. If the chemo is really making him that sick, he can probably skip the chemo or change to a less toxic one, but he really needs to finish all his radiation treatments. He also needs the blood clot addressed as you already know. It's a three day weekend coming up. I'd call his doctors and let them know what is going on with clot and no food/water and ask them what to do.
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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