All,

An overdue update on Stanley. So far: he's finished week four of rads. He's suffering from all of those wonderful side effects we've each endured; burns, loss of taste, pain...over and over and over again. He struggled with both rounds of chemo, initially decided not to have a third however he had a change of heart. His doctors determined last week that a third round of chemo was not warranted, so that was good news. He's a long way from being "well", but there is a faint light at the end of that long, dark "treatment tunnel".

On another front, my father in law is losing his fight with kidney cancer. The prognosis is grim; a matter of a couple of days at best. We're spending as much time as we possibly can with him...........
God, I HATE this disease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


SCC left mandible TIVN0M0 40% of jaw removed, rebuilt using fibula, titanium and tissue from forearm.June 06. 30 IMRT Aug.-Oct. 06