Hi,
I've looked for a place to post this. While I was exploring where I was going to have treatment I came into contact with a 93 year old woman who lives by herself in north central Kansas. She still drives a car around her small town. She was a patient at MD Anderson in the early 1970's for treatment for cancer of the oral tongue--under her tongue. She said she caught her early, but there was no place around that really treated it--except--she was given these three options: Sloan-Kettering, Mayos, and MD Anderson. Her husband chose for her MD Anderson. So she had her treatment there over a number of weeks, which she described for me. She was given the choice of surgery or radiation. She chose radiation because, "I did not want my tongue to be cut." She took at least part of it in the form of rods placed in her tongue. Sounded like she did not have lots of side effects, except she had to stay out of the sun. She finally lost her lower teeth recently.

She also told me in the 1980's sometime one of the residents who was in on treating her came to her house (believe me it's remote & off the interstate), rang the doorbell, and there he was. He said, "I just had to look you up and see how you were doing." So they chatted awhile, and then he took off as he was driving to Colorado.

Well, there you go . . . probably people like that in places you don't suspect. I have another one I'll share another time.

I think you guys (on this thread) are all doing great. Hats off to you, Charm!
Anne