Christine,

Thanks for your response. Michael usually does listen to his oncologist and yesterday when I mentioned HBO again he didn�t fuss as much as he did before. I guess we both just wished life wasn�t so hard sometimes, but we all do. He claims his vision and hearing aren�t back to where they were before the HBO � his hearing wasn�t good before it all started. He recently got hearing aides and he isn�t using them much at all so he isn�t adjusted to them yet. I have offered previously to let him read the posts on the forum and he has briefly a couple times � I will try again. I think both of us want our lives to be more than just dealing with cancer and its aftereffects. Just so much of it around � just this week I have three new people in my life with cancer scares/ diagnoses. Thanks again you do seem to be the HBO expert.