Minnie -- I USED to drink soda (not pop), but I can't yet handle the carbonation in my mouth (nor anything with a lot of pepper and spices). I miss my Mt. Dews and COkes, but then again my body probably doesn't miss all that sugar and caffeine...

I moved from NC to Arizona four years ago, and was surprised that bar-b-cue here WAS NOT pork on a bun, but a noun meaning "a cookout". We had pizza at our first bar-b-cue here!! What is that?!?! Ha ha...

Tongue cancer (SCC), diagnosed Oct. 2003 (T2 N0 M0). Surgery to remove tumor. IMRT Radiation 30x in Dec 2003 - Jan. 2004. Recurrence lymph node - radical neck dissection June 2004. Second round of rad/chemo treatments ended Sept. 2004.