[quote=ak123]Thank you Bart! We will know the stage tomorrow. I am very sorry for your cancer too. I will pray that you live 100 more years. Our oral doctor is sending us to a Otolaryngology is that the same as an Oncologist? and you are so right no one is guaranteed life. [/quote]

Hi AK,

Thank you for the kind wishes yourself.

But if I may do so without appearing to to be an ungrateful wretch, I'd very much like it if you could dial back on those extra years.

Living to be 175 years... (shudder,) Let's just say that such is not one of my most fervent desires. The very idea scares me more that any diagnosis I could ever face. (shudder...) laugh

But you have my very best wishes for your brother, and you, of course.
It's a Noble and rewarding and challenging job you have taken on, being your brother's advocate and I applaud you for stepping up like that!

Last edited by Bart; 06-19-2014 02:01 PM.

My intro: http://oralcancersupport.org/forums/ubbt...3644#Post163644

09/09 - Dx OC Stg IV
10/09 - Chemo/3 Cisplatin, 40 rad
11/09 - PET CLEAN
07/11 - Dx Stage IV C. (Liver)
06/12 - PET CLEAN
09/12 - PET Dist Met (Liver)
04/13 - PET CLEAN
06/13 - PET Dist Met (Liver + 1 lymph node)
10/13 - PET - Xeloda ineffective
11/13 - Liver packed w/ SIRI-Spheres
02/14 - PET - Siri-Spheres effective, 4cm tumor in lymph-node
03/15 - Begin 15 Rads
03/24 - Final Rad! Woot!
7/27/14 Bart passed away. RIP!