Hello everybody!! Some good news for everybody!! Joyce is doing well. The only down side is the cost of the surgery. The in laws miscalculated all expenses. The money sent has been spent. So the children are facing a big challenge ahead once she starts radiation treatment. The absence of health insurance is becoming a huge issue.

Currently she still has a feeding tube which they assume will be kept for another 3 weeks. She also has a home health nurse that comes during the day time while she has a care giver at night.

About her surgery, she has a big cut from the base of mandible (below the ears) up to the front or middle of her chin. Basically half of her mandible was surgically opened (sorry I don't know the medical terminology). She is still on pain medication.

Nevertheless, we hope that she will continue to progress and be healthy for the next phase...33 sessions of radiation.



Joyce March 1940 to January 2014
A wife, a mother, grandmother and great grandmother.
She fought oral cancer from late 2009 to Early 2014.
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.