Thank you all for your replies. It gave me a lot of comfort in knowing that others have been in this same situation. I think your are right on jaminkw on how he has been feeling. He did so well with his initial chemo (carbo/taxol/avastin) and had tolerated all so well that the doctors were calling him a medical miracle and said they did know quite what to do. The kept the chemo going for about 6 months and then cut back to just the Avastin for 4 months and then nothing! Life seemed normal and it seemed we had beaten this monster. He had 4 clean scans before he got one showing a small lesion in his right middle lobe. No problem; we'll just do the chemo. Then they decided to do the MRI to make sure there were no brain mets before the Avastan. They found 6 individual lesions. I guess it has taken our safety net away and it actually feels worse than when he was first diagnosed. He was quite heavy when he was originally diagnoses (300#) so I know he's glad he's losing weight and I think that's why he doesn't eat. We did discuss this with his doctor who talked to us about Megace but George said he wouldn't take it. I'm still fighting with him over the fluids. His creatinine goes up to 2.5 if he doesn't drink enough fluids. We are trying all different liquids since he says nothing tastes good. The past two days he has drank diet Peach Snapple Iced Tea and says that tastes good.
Thanks for the hugs and well wishes. People want to help but unless they've been through it, they don't know what to say.
I'll move to a more appropriate subject now.
Char
