Thank you all so much for your responses and encouragement. I see that some of you have indeed been through and continue to live with this awful thing that is cancer. We can all be glad we are living in an age of incredible technology. I have learned and continue to learn more than I really wanted to, but it is my way of bearing part of the huge burden my husband has been faced with.

Today K.C. was fitted with a device that will allow them to place the radioactive (seeds?) He did very well. On Wednesday they will do the scans and we'll then know the stage of this beast. He starts his treatments next Monday.

I can look forward to having three teeth extracted sometime next week. Hoping to do it on a Friday so that we could rent a motel room so I can crash between his treatments and then go home and have the weekend to get mostly over the dental thing. We joked that we'll now be eating the same sorry goo of pudding, applesauce, mashed potatoes, etc.

Again thank you all for a warm welcome.