It's two weeks since treatment stopped and I'm feeling now that I'm seeing the small steps to recovery now. The phlegm has definately reduced but I do wake up needing to have a good cough and swill my mouth out. Some days I wake up and my tongue has really swollen. Last night I woke at 4am and had a voltarol tablet and it seemed much better when I woke up this morning.
The Wiltshire farm food meals arrived…
The phlegm has definitely reduced a lot. I haven't had to use the spitting glass all night. It's still thickish in my mouth but more saliva like in texture.
I ordered some puréed and soft meals from Wiltshire farm foods yesterday that arrive on Thursday. I did try some fish pie on Sunday and soup yesterday but it was quite hard work.
I feel as though I have less energy this week than last week. Maybe…
So I had my last of 30 sessions of radiotherapy a week ago last Friday. The past week has been a bit of a struggle, the worse thing being the sudden onset of the Phlegm monster. I can't believe how many toilet rolls I've got through. I took people's advice and found that the bi-carb mouth rinse seems to be best at getting the stuff out.
For a few days eating ( well drinking ensure) was tough because I didn…
Today is my first day without radiotherapy, it feels such s relief not to be getting ready to trip of to the hospital although I do feel a bit lost without all those people around.
The main thing that's changed is the increased mucous/ thick saliva that's being produced. There's a lot in my mouth, but I also seem to be coughing up very thick phlegm. I rinsing with salt water and alternating that with capholsol. I have…
