And chiming in with Nelie, if you are at a decent hospital you should be getting suggestions, handouts, recipes, etc. and advice from a nutritionist anyway. I had weekly meetings with my nutritionist, who also gave me samples of many liquid nutrition drinks to try out (actually with 2 nutritionists - the CCC that did my RT insisted that I meet weekly with theirs as well) . In the HMO I belong to it was automatic and actually mandatory. By all means look for recipes here but don't overlook resources that may be readily available to you.

I have to admit that there have been some very good high calorie drink recipes here and they should be made readily accessible. As Brian suggested there is a LOT in the archives about this.

Swallowing issues tend to be more individual in general since we all respond differently to treatment. The new forum hopefully will facilitate persons with similar experiences and solutions hooking up.

I am glad to see a forum for this since the nutritional aspect is of great importance for the healing process.

Why not concentrate the food suggestions, as Nelie suggested, in one, easy to find, thread.

There could actually be several other dedicated topics to this forum as well such as:
Pre PEG/Treatment
PEG/emotional aspect of having a tube hanging out of your body/installation/care and maintenance/optimal usage, etc.
Post PEG or Transitioning from PEG to soft foods
No PEG (believe it or not a few of us did it without a PEG and we had to eat too)
Aspiration issues and prevention
Esophogeal dilation
Obturators
The emotional aspect of not being able to enjoy food during treatment (this was a big one for me)

This is not all inclusive by any means...


Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)