Regarding nutrition: I found a wonderful free site called www.fitday.com it enables you to keep a food diary daily and it tracks the calorie, protein, carb and fat count. My new "deal" with Dan is if he gets at least 2500 calories and 150 grams of protein per day that I will leave him alone about the meal supplement drinks.

RO said he thought skin reaction was nothing to worry about - just comes from Dan being mildly fair skinned... I asked him should we see a Dermatologist and he said when this was over, but not now. I don't know if I'm comfortable with that - I'm going to do a little research on my own.

I do have a new question though. The choking mucous is causing Dan to throw up on occasion (becoming more common) and he says he feels weird, but he doesn't think it's nasuea? Did yall's nasuea present in the usual "quesy" way or was it different? Dan is not a big fan of taking pills and he's like I don't want to take a nasuea pill because it's not that... But he just threw up his supper and he doesn't want anything else.

Dan was prescirbed some extended release morphine today - the lower 15 mg dose. We'll see how this works for him.


Michelle, CG to husband (45), DX 2/08 Stage IVa Adenocarcinoma Salivary Gland (T2N2bMO)
Parotidectomy & ND 2/08, Tumor margins not clear, 4 of 30 nodes positve for cancer,
TX IMRT 39x, cisplatin 7x (completed 5/1/08),
PEG (4/22 - 7/9), No port. Currently in remission!