Sandy,

I was on tube feedings for 2 months after treatment ended and it was no problem! There are folks out there that live entirely on canned nutrition. The key is to swallow whatever you can, be it water, broth, applesauce, whatever. And like my fellow Margaret said, 16 days out of treatment is nothing! You just went through 7 weeks of being toasted! This is a time when the expression "Patience is a virtue." absolutely applies.

Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018