Su (and Janet),

Thank you for the absolutely beautiful stories! Your mother is so fortunate to have you and your love. It is so much easier to look back and see the good things through the struggles of life and if we don't stop and look back, how can we truly appreciate where we are today?

I had a good friend and her mother went through breast cancer treatment and her hair fell out. My friend who was always a bit on the glamourous side, shaved her lovely head, too. It was adorable to think of this lovely young lady who was always dressed to the nines, going bald to help her mother not feel embarassed.

I, too, took off work to care for my mother and even though she didn't make it, I still have the most wonderful memories and four years later my wife and I are still chuckling at some of the madness and how we made do when we had to. Life is a joy if you take time to make the memories!

Ed

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023