Thank you all for your warm welcome! It's incredible how insightful people can be when they've taken the "walk".
We truly have a very unique form of cancer, one that can bring out the very best or worst in a person. The Creator seems to have endowed the OC folk with an extra helping of compassion along with the troubles.
Sudbury is the Nickel Capital of the World...located in Northern Ontario amidst the rocks and pines where the temperature today is minus 21 Celcius or for you folks still on the farenheit scale, it's about 5 below zero.
We have a large regional Cancer Center here, so seeing a doc is not difficult. Because of our medicare system in Canada the treatment has not put us out of pocket (except for prescriptions).
I have enormous sympathy for those who have had to take on mortgages and worse in order to regain their chance at life.
Thanks again for the responses..I'll try to follow your good examples.
Cheers,