Definitely not what we'd planned, Joanna! :rolleyes:

As for the thermometer thing, for some reason at my medical oncologist's iffice, the under tongue thermometers are all they have (whereas at the hosptial, the ear ones are all they have) and by the end of my daily visits to the oncology nurses before rad for the Amifostine shot, they knew better than to even try taking my temp. We have an ear one at home--thank God for them!

I was overweight by about 40-50 pounds right before I was diagnosed with tongue cancer (even with tongue pain I managed to overeat over Christmas ) and I have lost 45 pounds since then so am now at the top range of normal weight (back to where I was during my 30s and early 40s before I got together with my sweet and pasta-loving husband). So even without the PEG I probably wouldn't have had to worry about becoming too thin. But I know I would have gotten more dehydrated without it and that would have been bad so I can see why they require it.

Joanna, I assume you also had chemo and rad both since you ended up in the hosptial in a similar state to mine. How long after rad before you were able to eat or drink things without too much pain?

I taste salt sometimes. I also seem to taste some fruit flavors. I got some boittled iced white tea with honeydew juice in it and I swear I can taste the honeydew (at lest on the first sip) and today I made some iced pear-flavpred white tea (a new Celestial Saesonings flavor) and it seemed like I could taste the pear a little.