When Barry suddenly started getting really bad mouth mucous and gunk (this just after the end of his treatment) after not having serious problems along that line, it turned out he had a pneumonia and a bacteremia (blood infection). As soon as he went onto the IV antibiotics, the excessive mucous started to go away and was gone by the end of the oral antibiotic course he took afterwards.

I showed Barry your post and he advised that John ask his doctor to do blood work which would indicate if he has some kind of latent infection going on -- not necessarily what Barry had, could be his sinuses or ears -- so this can get treated.

Barry has no mouth gunk now and hasn't for over a month, since the infections were completely cleared up (it took several weeks to be sure the "walking pneumonia" was gone) --

Gail


CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!