Hi Christine,

Thank so much for your welcome.It�s lovely that you call it a gigantic online family. The internet is a great thing, uniting people who could otherwise never meet.

I think my scoliosis was just bad luck - the combination of my milk allergy and the right tube feed not having been ordered. I must also have had a predisposition towards scoliosis as otherwise I don�t think it would have happened. I eventually found a preventive Canadian brace but got it too late as my breathing is affected a little and I couldn�t breathe in the brace - I think if I had got it immediately I realised my back was changing it might have stopped the progression.

You seem to be quite a fighter to have bounced back the way you seem to have - well done smile

3 Jul 2012 aged 66 Stage 1 sub-tongue SCC excised (cancer 1cm diam. + 1 cm margin + 3 teeth + sliver of jaw bone; right neck dissection 19 lymph nodes; sub-tongue skin graft from left arm). No RT or chemo but pur�e most food, esp. recently. MRI tongue May 2015 - clear. High raw diet but not fully vegetarian. Scoliosis (first noticed Oct 2012, now stabilised I hope at 59.9 degrees; this is my main problem). Also well-controlled atrial fibrillation. Ex clinical biochemist/toxicologist.