Post treatment update - 1 week on

Hi Polly sounds like you're doing well. I too found watchiingbtv helped immensely in early days as a distraction. Once I started to eat I found 6 small plates of food easier to manage than 3 square meals a day. They were not full meals breakfast a small bowl of runny wet weetabix could take me 45 mins then around 11 an ensure stood uo at kitchen sink looking out into garden again distraction. Lunch poached egg eventually on toast well buttered cheap white bread. Toast was easier than bread. May be a trifle mI’d afternoon  with another ensure etc. I aimed for 2500 calories a day to start with inwas having 6 ensures to get 1800 calories then eventually found what worked for me. Make sure you drink 2-3 litres of water a day. Some days yiu might feel like 2 steps back and 1 forward. Recovery can be a marathon not a sprint take it at yiur own pace there’s no right or wrong way 

re the mucus as gross as it sounds I found pulling out with fingers easier and putting it into tissues.  I also had a humidifier in bedroom and a nebuliser which I used 5-6 times a day. Recovery’s a  full  time  job !! But you’ll get there. The mucus will go often replaced by dry mouth which is another thing that many of us have for a good while but again manageable. 
hugs Hazel,x

I found that I could tolerate Alcohol Free Guinness pretty early on in recovery...contained a few calories which helped...Full fat milk also helped...I am not really a milk drinker but my CNS recommended that I drank it regularly.