I totally agree, no born agains for me either.................and while we`re all being honest and letting it all hang out, I seem to have a perverse desire to check this board daily..........and usually get angry.....so many people on this board seem to be their disease, instead of a person with a disease..........my husband has had lower face removed and rebuilt.........in the mirror, his identity is gone, but he`s still the person and not the disease...........people worry about ever tasting food again...guess what? he never will taste anything again..........but he`s alive, and the cancer will not be the center of our lives........as a practicing Buddhist, I consider it a gift that I have the opportunity to care for him.........it`s not easy, but who said life was gonna be?