Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement. It's all good advice, the problem is, trying to convince him to do anything. If he doesn't hear it directly from the doctor, he doesn't really believe in it (and that's difficult because he hasn't seen a doctor since the day before his last treatment so he won't see him again until next week). I find this whole thing strange. I can't believe how little he has seen a doctor throught this whole process. He saw the radiation dr once a week and the chemo dr once a week, that's it. The nurses at the chemo office were helpful, but like I said they stopped that treatment after a couple weeks. So, he mostly saw the girls at the radiation office, but they weren't nurses, they were just techs. I just kind of feel like this was dumped in our laps and we kind of had to figure out how to deal with all of it on our own.

Anyway, David 2....Yes it's HPV, no they didn't check his thyroid and no he hasn't gotten any fluoride treatments. The dr talked to him about possibly having some teeth pulled before the treatments began, but he was too anxious to start on the treatments. He already has partial dentures but they don't fit anymore. So I guess we'll have to see what happens with that after we're done with all this. Honestly, we haven't worried too much the teeth. We've been more focued on everything else.

Wow, I'm just realizing how ignorant I sound...I'm sorry!



Secondary caregive to dad (70 years old). BOT cancer & lymph nodes diagnosed 12/11. 35 rad treatments & 4 erbitux. PEG tube. Non-smoker. Casual drinker.