My mom passed away on December 15th. It's very sad that on Sep 15th we were informed that she had 3-24 months. She became really weak early November and died at exactly three months. I thought we would have at last a year with her. Her one round of chemo only made things worse.

She was initially diagnosed in August 2008 and had a successful Mandibulectomy in September 2008. She went on to live a normal life for 6 years and I was so thankful for this.

In March of this year she had recurrence. Our doctor indicated he had never seen a case like this where after five plus years he was looking at my mom as a brand new stage IV patient.

She was 54.