Clive is now on day 7 of his radiotherapy. He felt quite bad last week and was the lowest I've seen him. He has developed a nasty cough and is bringing up lots of saliva. The radiotherapist says the tumour can be pushing on the windpipe and can cause the cough and it also makes you create too much saliva, which is also not flowing down as easily as normal, so getting rid of it is a good idea. This does seem to have improved a bit over the last couple of days, so hopefully the radiotherapy is starting to take effect. He has been getting down the high energy drinks he has got on prescription, but I guess its a bit of a vicious circle, you need to eat more to get more energy, and this is not easy at the moment. The treatment is definitely causing alot of tiredness, but you never really know if that is the cancer. We were beginning to wonder if we would be able to make the V festival which we have tickets for, as its camping too which could be a bit much for him, we are waiting for the tickets to come and then we'll see. The radiotherapist said it can take 6 weeks from treatment to get the full effects. I am hoping we will be able to get away for a weeks holiday during the kids holidays. They are already starting to drive me bonkers and the constant rain is not helping. Just keeping everything crossed he will pick up and stay that way for as long as possible.
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Hope things are improving for Clive. I am following your blog, my situation is the same as yours. We are about to finish chemo and then rescan, but the hint is they can`t do anything else down here. I am looking to move to another big hospital, in the middle of researching radiotherapy.
I feel exactly the same as you, its horrible to be in this situation, especially with young children.
My husband has cancer of the epiglottis his radiotherpay is 6 weeks twice a day he has not had chemo or sugery RT finishes on the 11th August the thick sticky mucus that he has in his throat is and has been very distressing for him but from what I have been able to findout via the internet is normal I just hope it doesnt go on for much longer it seems to be affecting his life more than the cancer itself.
I do hope your husband improves, and that you manage to get a week away.
We had a trip to the UK arranged but when Steve was diagnosed in June that had to be cancelled, he wants to go when treatment finished. I dont I think the risk with swineflu and being on a plane for 3 hours are too much.
