This morning Dan said it hurt to swallow, but he ate today and says he doesn't need pain meds. Don't know if he's just being a tough guy or not. My question is was the swallowing a gradual thing or quick thing? Did it come with, before or after the mouth sores?
He has no mouth sores yet - just lots of coughing and mucous and gagging. He's started the mucinex and robitussin to try and thin it.
The taste buds are still bizarre - he is over-seasoning food and craving spicy food still. Drinks with carbonation are burning.
He's real tired. Lab work from yesterday (Friday) was great and MO said he was very pleased at how well he is doing at this stage.

Just wondering where you guys were at this point. From what I've read I think he's pretty blessed to be doing this well at this stage,, but that we don't need to lull ourselves into a false sense of hope because it will get bad soon...
He is on Salagen (Pilocarpine) 4 x a day to try and help stay on top of the dry mouth issue since Dan's salivary gland is where the cancer is - and where the radiation is of course targeted.
Forgot another question - Dan's recently started BP meds, once a day and I read somewhere that Cisplatin lowers your BP... any thoughts on that? With the new BP meds and Cisplatin - his BP on Friday was still high 170/100.