Michelle,

At the end of week two of treatment(3 chemos and ten days of rads-BID), I was asking everyone when the bad stuff started as Bill was doing really well. At the end of week three things started crashing in and by the beginning of week four, Bill was totally on PEG feedings. It seems to happen pretty quickly. I think your body works that way...coping until it just can't anymore. Bill got fairly good relief from the liquid morphine I put in his peg...didn't need the fentanyl patch till week 5..those meds made it possible for him to swallow a little; enough to get a bottle or two of Gatorade down.

Hang in there...pretty soon you will be "celebrating" the last treatment.

Hugs, Deb