Thanks for the response;

I gargle with salt water and baking soda 3/4 x a day. The Mucous is mostly clear and the Dr says it's from the xrt. I haven't tried ginger ale yet. Anything fizzy seems to burn my throat.

Today is 9 days out and am doing OK still have a very sore throat. I started cutting back on the patch...dropped it to 50mg last night and haven't had any morphine in a couple of days, so we'll see how that goes.

I'm certainly looking forward to light that I keep hearing about. It's just so tough staying positive, I guess I have a touch of the after treatment depression I heard about as well.

Along with my wife and son the support I get from this website has been a godsend.