Today as I was doing some laundry I thought to myself...everyone always hopes for a normal life...I assume normal is easy, little crisis, happy, healthy etc. etc. but I now am begining to believe that normal is the crazy life we have...radiation side effects, back surgeries, teeth breakage, cancer reoccurrences, root canals that result in hospitalizations, vomiting from wrong meds being given, waiting for a little gas to pass, the taste of hospital food, the mountains of bills and all the rest. So I decided that from now on, I'm going to stop wishing for normal, because NORMAL SUCKS, give me an abnormal life any day. Those abnormal days are what keep me sane!


Caregiver to Erik -1st DX 12/22/2005 SCC of Tongue, T3N1M0, hemi-glossectomy,60 nodes removed, carboplatnin,Erbitux, 35Rads.
Reoccurrence T1N0M0 4/14/08-partial glossectomy-16 weeks Erbitux and Taxol-
3rd reoccurrence 5/18/12- partial glossectomy