Mark, I was sorry to read of your wife's difficulties. All the previous posts have been excellent and I hope you'll take some encouragement from them. I can only sympathize with the smoking issue, know it's a bitch to quit. My landlady, for instance, had half a lung removed 3 or 4 years ago to cancer and still smokes! Unbelievable to me, but it just proves how hard it is. I hope you avail yourselves of all the information and tools available to stop this pernicious - and life-threatening - habit.

I also must only sympathize, and I very much do, with the trismus problem. I hope she'll find some help at the link Brian posted. Please keep us posted. I also hope (man, I'm doing a lot of hoping here!) that you speak with the doctors about pain. No one should be in pain, especially when there are so many ways to attack it.

Mainly though I was gratified by the statement "Lynda is cancer free and all looks good." Congratulations to her and to you for getting through the horror. I know it's often difficult to look past the side effects and the pain, but we all have to try.

Please keep us posted on her progress.

Courage!
David2