Three more treatments!

Robin's got just Thursday, Friday and Monday to go with her radiation treatments. Even though: her mouth is sore, she doesn’t talk, and she uses her feeding tube for eating - the radiation folks say she is doing great! She usually only has pain if she tries to talk or eat something, so by keeping her mouth shut she doesn’t have to take any pain medication (Nurses seem to have an aversion to meds...). Unfortunatly she has been coughing quite a bit lately which can be painful. The radiation doctor jokingly asked with a smile "what would we have to do to knock her down?"

We asked when she would be able to go back to solid foods and the clinical folks said it could be up to four weeks. We've ordered six more cases of her liquid supplement which should get us through that time period. By then it will be time for surgery, so I would guess she will continue with the supplements at least to mid-December. We have met patients who went up to five months using just their feeding tube!