Brian,
Your progress sounds good. I will sit down with something as simple as a bowl of oatmeal before me or a plate of soft vegetables at a cafeteria or yesterday, broiled red snapper at a Greek restaurant...although the mucous is now under control and my mouth is not sore...as you said, the food doesn't have that much taste , and by the time that I get up, it looks like a bird has been pecking at the food. I just cannot seem to eat very much. I don't know if it is due to a shrunken stomach or the swallowing function still healing, but I barely eat one half of much of anything. I am getting a little tired of yogurt and Boost Plus but I realize that all that now stands between me and normal life at the moment is being able to eat and gain weight.

Danny G.


Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.