Thanks all - his head seems in a better place. He is building his courage to fight the fight. God bless him - he is so scared. He is 60 and hasn't seen a doctor in 50 years.

I have to fly back to LA and he will see a pain doctor, nutritionist and psychiatrist while I am gone (all at Dana Farber - what an amazing place). He had his scan/fitting for his RT mask today, goes back on the 13th for films to double check mask fit. I come back to be with him when he starts the Radiation and cistplatin on the 17th.

As you can tell, I live in LA and my brother is out here in Boston at Dana Farber. I am lucky that I am a Professor so I get more freedom in the summer. I was thinking that I would fly in to get him started and then come back when the going startes getting tough.

For any of you when went through the 7 week RT/Chemo treatment, when would be the time when he would start to be really feeling the effects of the treatments?

(And I started a signature below - how did I do?)