Hi Graeme,

Thanks for kind words.

Re water yes...throughout recovery I was drinking about 3/4 litres of water per day and sometimes more.

Now I would say I'm pretty much regular 3 lires a day approx...spread out from morning to night and always nice and cold...Dont really go below 3 litres a day I actually enjoy it now and used to

Plus Fiona has heating on full blast most of time and house feels like Tenerife, I need to drink.

Hazel banned me from,  but I do also indulge in cans diet coke that never seem to finish. My one wee luxury of ice cold from fridge.

ian

Hi Hazel

Thank you for response and your right and good way of putting re food from childhood. 

That never did us any harm huh and we never had all the fancy foods we can have now.
Good suggestions re your food options and I forgot about cauliflour. Fiona makes a mean cali cheese and that goes down really well.
Another really good point re eating and well said about function..I coudnt agree more and your right its not that we dont want to eat..sometime we just cant..physically...if only it was that easy to say "just eat" and again it was sometimes like medication eating rather than you say pleasurable.
I hope that you get some resolution for saliva issues and thats been around for a while and must be so frustrating. I'm lucky in that I'm not too bad now but I defo know what dry mouth is like for eating and I still need to drink in between bites to get down sometimes and food can sometimes stick a little. so yup, even eating is not always plain sailing and why we sometimes find it hard to do  and if you go along with feeling naff and add no appetite then its no wonder why so many mention that trouble eating/appetite is an issue. 
OMG are you baning me from my nice cup of milky tea as well as diet coke?...I've never been a coffee drinker but I do like my cup tea. Not many and not every day but occasionally I will have small cup tea with food.

A day not raining.mmm you are blessed..never mind chum, soon be time for Spain again

Onwards & Upwards

ian

Ian nope to milky tea unless de caff plus I saw your postvre having been a cheeky Diet Coke which part if NO didn’t you get lol 

ppps still raining 

h x

Hazel

I'm reporting you for bullying me.

ian x

Hi Isn  Tough love works every time. Lol still raining xx

Hi Hazel

right back at ya..

raining just now for you pour wee soul but you away back to Spain in 26 days.

I'm in Scotland and get one day a year sun so your barking up wrong tree looking for my sympathies for you having to go through a traumatic few days rain lol.

ian  x

Hello All

Well I finally got hold of my cancer nurse today, who went off to find out what was going on and called me back.  So story seems to be Lung MDT had their meeting yesterday and looked at my scans, they were not overly concerned at what was on them and want to see another scan in 3 months so I am taking this as good news.  This puts me back on the surgery list and will be decided when at this Tuesdays Head and Neck MDT so hopefully by Wednesday I will get a date for the surgery.  I know this is only the start and there may be radiotherapy to follow the surgery and i might end up with permanent  alternative feed or worse case scenario a breathing stoma, but the fight against this intruder can commence.  Have a good weekend all Mo

Also forgot to add has anyone been watching the New Amsterdam on Amazon Prime, its about American Public Hospital.  The director of surgery has throat cancer.  Found this to be a bit creepy with what is going on in my life at the moment.

Hi Mo

at last you’ve got some news. Nope haven’t seen programme will try n find it. 

Try snd chill out over weekend and keep in touch with uodates

 best wishes

hazel l 

Hi everyone. Am back from a wet week in Wales ,had a good family time and we got out every day so bonus all way round.

a few updates on me can  be found on my blog which I have just updated in the true tradition of spoiler alerts before you  all rush to read therecare a few points that are personal,so any delicate flowers amongst us look away. Lol.

nothing bad just a few personal observations that some of you may be experiencing as well.

www.radioactiveraz.wordpress.com

Yesterday I reached another milestone 9 month post radiotherapy in other words I couldn’t have gestated a baby in the time I have had in recovery !!! Not sure which is worse !

gentle reminder to everyone  our immune systems aren’t what they use daily to be I have had a cold now for over 10 days the old me would have got rid if it in a few days! Am iff tonsee local g p later this week so will,report back if anything interesting comes out if it.

good luck wherever you are in treatment and  recovery keep in touch let’s see if we can get the   thread to a 1000 posts 

Hazel x