Hi Ian

gluten free is eadier to swallow as its made from semolina flour which breaks up more easily and with less saliva making it easier to swallow. On the downside ut can be cardboardy and usually has more added sugar but thats not always s bad thing when trying to maximise calories. Warburtons New bakehouse sourdough or tiger cob from sainsburys or waitrose is the best ! Steer clear from tesco own free from range ! really cardboardy . Genius products are ok to but all of the crumpets are really heavy ! 

Emma 

Hi Ian 

good luck for tomorrow your last day of radiotherapy!well done in reaching this far ,remember ask if yiu need anything or any questions .

i brought my mask home sick souvenir I know she’s hanging in the garage some hospitals allow you to bring them home just thought I would let you know that one .a lot if people don’t want them then afterwards say wish they had kept it. I look at ut this way it saved my life fingers x.

take care keep eating , watch out in nuggtbfir mouth getting stuck tip I gargle gently with warm salt water .taomwater too harsh for me so I used mineral in kettle and mineral water to drink and cool it down lanyway enough if my waffling

hazel 

Hi Hazel,

Thank you and one day to go !!

I already have a mask as 1st one didnt fit and they let me take it home, but im not sure I want it around the house but thanks for letting me know.

Stuggled past couple days with eating and from consipation to taking laxido then diarahhea.

Feeling sick past cpl days and stuggle to get anything down so will ask for anti sickness tablets tomorrow as well.
I have booked 3 weeks annual leave from Friday and looking forward to treatment being over as its been a long shout and ive had enough now lol.

Sleeping more than normal past couple days, but just going with flow along with meds and trying to get through final hurdle. Aware that i will continue to feel naff for some weeks tey, but hoping to at laest be on te start of recovery once treatment stops

kind regards

ian

hi again.

lol...day out and maybe wishful thinking..

I have 2 more treatments to go and finish on Friday lol

kind regards
ian

Hi *** was convinced while in bath it was Thursday n. Use message u. Oops oh well thoughts are there !, gives u a day to think about keeping the mask !,,

hazel

Hi Hazel,

Hope you have found your lost day! lol

Feeling bit better today after cpl days feeling bit washed out and after meeting with nurse today , was told to make sure I have at least 2 ensure drinks a day as struggling with taking anything and lost few pounds this week.

But only one more treatment to go tomorrow - who and hooo....and looking forward to at least this part finishing and then buidling up strengtth as weeks go on.

Back on nebuliser and I think I should have use more often as it maybe helps more than I thought with the mucas.

Still trying to have positive head, managed quite a bit of work today and onwards and upwards from tomorrow

kind regards

Ian

Hi Ian

made use of my lost day by dragging myself n hubby to cortonwood and xmas shopping a task that needed doing !

good luck for tomorrow ,just a word of warning don’t try and do too much please I know 3/4 people who in first week after treatment overdid it and ended up in hospital .! Dehydration and lack of food .

at one point. Just remember it took 6 week 5 times a week to get the radiation into yiu it takes at least 3 times as long to get it out if your system .if u touch my neck I still feel heat from it 

 I was on 5  Ensure and 2 fresubin I still take 2 30 min power naps in day one after tablets at lunch and one at tea time. 

Re nebuliser I made it part if my routine for a good few weeks including middle of night It’s was wake up rinse take tablets try n get some Ensure down me even i night then nebulise then clean teeth put lip balm on biotene  gel on gums n teeth then bed .

the biotene gel is good for maintaining moisture u can try and get it prescribed or get your dentist failing that boots chemist. Biotene also do a mouthwash I have ut but too strong for me still 

good new today I am sat eating a tin if plum tomatoes admitting slowly but it’s a vegetable !!!!!! Up to now plain boiled beetroot and soft carrots if I am lucky . I miss fruit n veg.

oh well the tomatoes have defeated me managed 3/4 tablespoons its a start  

did I say I had a radiation burn the entire length of my tongue the oncologist had to catch the edge if tongue to ensure he had enough margins he apologised for nit telling me at the time but said it had to be done hence why I am having problem so still but looking today it’s now reduced to maybe 3 cm .

once again slowly does it think tortoise and hare m in this case we are defiantly the  tortoises.dont iver do work either 

thinking if yiu living in table for last time hearing the click of the mask being undone is quite emotional and at our hospital we get a bell to ring in reception I said all along I wasn’t doing it .but in the end I didn’t and hearing the clapping as getting then  congratulations made it worth while 

best wishes

Hazel look forward to reading uodates keep in touch 

That last radiotherapy session lives with you forever I reckon,remember it like it happened this morning even though the last 6 months have been a bit of a blur."Would you like to keep your mask John"? No, ******* burn it,I'm sick of the sight of it! Then ringing the bell after, not wanting too but being egged on by wife and daughter,and punching the air felt very cathartic somehow.A wonderful feeling closing one chapter.

Hi John 

wel put ! Glad I kept mask though as when u shown it to people the responses i get  are incredible ,like I couldn’t have done it  it so I reply no choice it’s that or die. Plus at Halloween looks good with lights in it !!

have a good weekend

Hazel