When did you finish then rads?

Are you still getting chemo? You say 4 of 6?

What is/was the chemo?

Re eating, just eat anything you can.

Were you able to work through any of this? Do you still have your job?

Scrambled eggs, soups, yogurt, cream of wheat, french toast, flat ginger ale worked for me.

I love your comment about 'parrot droppings'. I just had plain cardboard. Hang in there.

Take care,
Eileen

Jon,

Good to hear from you.

I did hot dogs no bun, liver (can't taste it anyway) oatmeal, pudding, avacado, eggs with lots of melted cheese.

Kelly

Jon,
If they have it in Thailand, I ate a lot of cheese cake. Lots of calories, went down easy and tasted tolerably.

Jon,

I forgot this one,

I would take poundcake (sweetbread) slice it thin and lather both sides with butter and then microwave it or pan fry it. soft and buttery.

Kelly

Jon, ham has a lot of salt in it,. If it bothers you don't eat it. Poach the eggs and they taste good on fresh butter bread torn into pieces or on pancakes with lots of butter. I hope you get to eating at least 3 tin=mes a day, I know it tastes like YUK but you need it to function.

Yes Dave I finished the 35 Rads on 7th Jan 2010
I was due to have 2 more Cisplatin Chemo, but had bad reaction to the 4 I had, so they are waiting till MRI 13th March 2010 to see what if any further action is needed, considering my 6 cm lymph Node shrunk to 1 cm and they hope it will shrink further by the time the MIR is done.

But they did warn me if they think the primary base of the neck Tumor has not shrunk enough, surgery may be necessary but as my node has shrunk so well, they don�t think this will be necessarily for lymph node to be taken out or base of tongue, God I hope not. Or they may even give me 2/3 more chemo have to wait and see hopefully no more of anything.

Eileen No I was not able to work through any of this The problem I had was I stopped eating or drinking at home as I had no appetite and felts so ill so they took me into hospital for 5 weeks

As far as I know, I still have a job, they were very good To me, but can only take me back when they have a vacancy as they gave my job up.

I HAVE BEEN BOILING VEGTABLE AND ADDING Spag bol from dinner meal frozen food or in a can with butter and honey and two poached eggs on top with a slice of ham but now my body is rejecting this and makes me feel sick to eat it because the high taste of salt is making me feel sick, you don�t realize how much salt is added to shop products until you have chemo,,,,, have to find some thing else I feel as though I don�t want to eat again and feel weak slightly as I�m looking after my self basically even though I have male friend staying he is not domesticated lol

I find I can�t eat and bread or cakes it dries my mouth up too much and don�t have sweet bread here any way.

Thanks for your advice guys your great anything else you can think of by the way I we was trying to make milk shakes with banana but I find my mouth start to have a high flem lever again so I stopped it.

Teacher

Jon

Hi Jon,

I can see how milk and milkshakes would cause a phlegm problems. I have not had radiation or chemo but I have had 4 partial glossectomies and struggled with eating. I found eggs to be good. They go down fairly easily. Of course, I had a lot of Ensure but they may cause the same problem as milk does for you. I also enjoyed vegetable soup and I would break up crackers and let them get soft in it. Hope this helps

Jon,, throw that ham away.. Do you know how much salt goes into curing a ham ? Use fresh vegetables if you can get them, canned ones are full of salt too. The bread can be eaten if it is cery fresh, no crust and covered with butter and the soft poached eggs over the bread after you make it into very small pieces.Try panckes with your eggs over them too but don't get the pancakes too well done or it will hurt your mouth. I have been eating this way for over 2 years and learned a lot , Don't just cook, but invent as you prepare a meal. You can rinse a lot of the salt off of canned vegetables. The menu might be limited,, but it will be food which you need

They now make an Ensure that is Lactose free I can't eat or drink dairy prodcuts but I have not been having any problem with this product.