Becca wrote:
> Janet Wilder wrote:
>> Cheryl wrote:
>>>
>>> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> When I was very sick and could hardly eat anything, I ate Kraft Mac
>>>> and Cheese with extra heavy cream added to it. It was one of the few
>>>> things I could manage.
>>>>
>>> That was with tongue cancer, right? Once it got past the tongue to
>>> the esophagus you felt ok to eat?
>>
>> My esophagus was all messed up from the radiation treatments.
>> Swallowing was very hard and very painful. Mac and cheese was soft and
>> slippery. The cream made it even more so and added some calories. I
>> needed a lot of protein to heal the open wound on my stomach from the
>> emergency colostomy when my colon ruptured in the midst of radiation.
>> The mac and cheese with the extra cream was, for a while, the only
>> solid food I could manage. Otherwise it was Boost.
>
> One of my friends had problems with her esophagus and swallowing was too
> painful, her doctor prescribed an anesthetic spray for her throat. One
> day she was having lunch and I was rubbing an ointment on the radiation
> burns that were on her back, and tears were running down her cheeks,
> because it hurt so bad to swallow. It was all I could do to keep from
> crying.
>
> Janet, I am glad you are healthy and cancer-free, but it sounds like you
> had a really rough time of it. I hope you never, ever have to go
> through that again.
>

Thank you, Becca. I hope I never do, either.