Double ditto on both the need for enormous quantities of calories to fuel the fight agains the cancer and for the healing too.

This is probably the only time in life that you can throw everything negative about consuming fat right out the window and have all the milkshakes your heart desires. In this struggle, you body doesn't care where the calories come from, only that it gets enough of them to overcome the disease!

About water; I don't know how big the bottles are, but one does need a minimum of 64 ounces of it a day. And that's for people who do NOT have the additional requirements that fighting cancer imposes.

Chemotherapy alters a great number of things in your body in a surprising number of ways. One of the most common is it can drastically affect the functioning of your bowels, causing either extreme constipation; or the direct opposite.

IF the problem is constipation (as in my case), having enough water will abate that a bit; but not having enough will exacerbate it (and other side-effects like dry-mouth) badly. The body will conserve water by withholding it from your bowel (where it uses water in mucus to lubricate and keep things moving) and from your saliva (for the same reason.)

And by the way, the best way to share pictures with anyone is to subscribe to a picture-hosting site (I use photobucket) and upload them to my page(s) there. These sites have tools for posting a URL to each picture, and that is all you need to post (or put in an email to a friend in an email) so no load is imposed on the web-site you wish to share your picture with. Each reader of that site can decide if they want to see the pic (by clicking the URL) or not.

If you do click the URL to a pic on a web-site, that pic will be sent to you, and you alone and no load will be incurred by the site showing the URL to your friends. IF this is not clear, PM me and I'll help you through the process.

Many of the pic hosting sites are completely free. I know photobucket is.

Once again, thank you folks for the encouragement. There is so much information here, that the Doctors do not give you or do not have time go into details.
Richard is not much into computers, so when I find a post that directly addresses what he is going through, I print and he reads. He is more willing to "believe", when he sees it directly from someone who has been there, as opposed to second-hand info from me.
We are grateful!
Barbara CG of Richard

Some day soon, we hope to "pay-it-forward"!