Dear myvot

i am now two years post treatment for throat cancer ....yipeeeeee

i had Tomotherapy, a more direct intensive radio therapy.....one session 5 days a week for 6 weeks.

by the end of it I could hardly get out of bed I was so tired

Before my treatment I would awake up at 6:30 and go to sleep at around midnight. I'm also a fit bloke and play lots of sports

now, when I get into bed ..... 3 mins and I'm gone  and for a full 8 hours

i sleep like a baby now

nowdays I still play a lot of sport, I can stay up til gone past midnight, but it will catch up with me the following day

being that your mum is 80 I would have thought she is going to be very tired

in the I itial days I had to have a sleep in the afternoon for about 3-4 hours and made my wife get me up, otherwise I would never had seen any of my family

shout if you need to know anything but sleep is normal

vatch

Thanks vatch 

She's normally so active and always out and about.  Just upsets me so much seeing her like this.  She lives aline which dosent help.  I work full time but my work allow me to work 4 days a week but I have to work extra hours the other 4 days.  I spend a Wednesday with her and also take her to my house from Friday night til Sunday afternoon. Wish I could be with her 24/7.  I'm just worried because she's not eating.  

Soup soup and soup

you have just got to let her rest though it took it out of me massively and I was a fit 51 year old, I'd be well overtired if I were 80

all I can so though is that having throat cancer once you get used to not eating it's very easy to just not eat ... It becomes natural and I became very ill only for a short time, then slowly i started to eat.

at worst ask the doctor for some booster milkshakes .... They are full of calories 

might just get her back in the swing of eating 

vatch