Muffy - I hope you are writing all this stuff down. You have been told a LOT of important stuff in the last 24 hours since you joined the family. All of it is important.

Like I said before, you have a steep learning curve to climb before treatment begins. I hope you have realized the gravity of what is about to happen to you. Cancer and treatment for are brutal. It truly will be the fight of your life.

If you're not writing this stuff down in a notebook, then print out all these posts of the last 24 hours and pin them to your wall. Reread then daily until you are absolutely sick of them -- or -- you know what you need to be doing.

Put a check mark by each one you've done. This is stuff you don't want to ignore, doing so will I promise make your life absolutely miserable over the next 2 months.

And the most important one of all is (you already know this)
--- Eat ---Eat ---Eat.

Show these posts to your son, so he also knows what you need to be doing and can tell you when you're falling behind.

Now, get busy.

Tony, 69, non-smoker, aerobatics pilot, bridge player/teacher, avid dancer (ballroom, latin, swing, country)

09/13 SCC, HPV 16, tonsillectomy, T2N0.
11/13 start rads, no chemo
12/13 taste gone, dry mouth,
02/14 hair slowly returning
05/14 taste the same, dry sinuses, irrigation helps.
01/15 food taste about 60% returned, dry sinuses are worse in winter.
12/20 no more sinus problems, taste pretty good