Hi Jenni:
Sorry to hear about your dad's recurrence. It's great that you are doing the legwork to find answers to these important questions for him.

I don't know how his first battle with cancer went. He may have been able to keep an upbeat attitude throughout treatment or maybe he suffered some of the psychological side effects that plague many with cancer.

Now that he is having a recurrence he may very well need the frequent support that the family members on this forum are so good at providing. That means he needs to be on the forum himself. If you have to be his intermediary then besides overloading you with work it will diminish the quality of support he can get here.

So, long story short, try to get him to join the forum himself. Some people aren't real computer literate and have a certain degree of fear of the computer. You may have to take on the role of computer tutor if he is one of these. But the quality and frequency of support he can get for himself will make the efforts worth it.

If he is in fact computer literate and just hasn't joined the forum yet, then my apologies for mis-understanding the situation.

You stay a member too, we support caregivers just as well as we support patients.

Good luck,
Tony