Thanks again to all the kind welcomes.

Started treatments yesterday, so feel at least I am in the "do" mode.

I discussed the feeding tube with my RO yesterday and I let him know I was warming up to the idea. He still wanted to wait a bit longer to make the call. Mostly as I have plenty of "reserves" right now. I'm a pretty big guy in both directions and because of a loving wife and the short vacation we just took I managed to gain back the 5 lbs. I'd lost since the biopsy. My wife laid in a whole larder full of soft and nutritious food based on the info we were given.

As to HPV, no, I still haven't asked and the doctors don't seem to even care. As stated above, the treatment plan isn't altered, so the value of another test is minimal. I was an off and on again smoker for 20 years but rarely smoked more than 10 cigs a day. I haven't smoked for 10 years which statistically would put me in the risk category of non-smokers. Ironically, none of my doctors have really been concerned with cause. I suppose if I was a heavy drinker and smoker then obviously behaviors would need to be treated. But I think I'm being put in the causation category of "bad luck" and lets get to treatment and take care of it.