Good news Paul and I certainly am praying for wisdom and guidance for your medical team. I'll sneak in another request for the Wizard to appear. You certainly deserve it with all the magic you have mustered up in this long and drawn out battle. You are an amazing man!

Get well and maybe we can plan 20-30 scuba dives so you can enjoy the dives at least. Hang in there. I would imagine you have some sense of relief but a bit of worry mixed in over the next month as you prepare for yet another round.


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