[quote=PaulB]Cancer is like any crisis, you prepare for the moment mentally, physically, get armed with knowledge, and during battle you fight, in our world it's either with surgery, radiation, Chemoradiation or combination thereof, and make necessary adjustments during, wether it be chemically, nutritionally, etc., then after battle you recover, review, learn, improve, and prep for the future. [/quote]

Can't sum it all up much better than these words. Wow.

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