Dear Ken,

Tom and I returned home from a post-Christmas trip today and I'm catching up on the board messages. Tom is 3 weeks post-op (neck dissections) and is having many problems right now - physical as well as emotional. Reading your post has renewed my strength in helping him through this. Some days he feels defeated, and I have to bolster him even as I am grieving for him (and US) deep inside. Messages like yours are such a profound help...........we WILL get through this and there WILL be brighter days.

Thanks for the New Year outlook! We stayed up on Friday night to happily flush 2004 and look towards those better days in 2005.
Love
Nicki

Nicki, wife of Thomas
dx July 2004, SCC, Stage 4 Tonsil. Tx begun 8/4/04. Cisplatin/Xeloda x 4; IMRT 7 wks, 8/7 - 10/25/04 Modified Radical Dissection (right), Selective Dissection (Left) 12/10/04.