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Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Hey Lynn,
My husband started using his PEG after three weeks of chemo/rad. He had a total of 8 weeks chemo/rad and has been finished treatments for two weeks. He still cannot take anything by mouth. We put everything in the tube. The mucositis is still very bad causing him to gag at times and he has a cough which also brings on gagging and throwing up. According to our medical team, this is normal and more time is needed before even thinking about eating by mouth. Take care and hopefully you have a really good support system in place. It is what has gotton both of us through this so far.
Take care,
Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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