The plan for now is 6 weeks of radiation. They are hopeful that since he handled his previous 6 weeks so well - the Docs were surprised that he didn't really have major issues - that this one will go smoothly as well. The oncology/radiology folk are calling his cancer early stage as opposed to the E,N,T doc who said maybe stage 2-3 but that was also before the PET results were back. They are good friends with a radiation doc (not for his situation) who has jumped in to assist as far as for lack of better term "jury consultant" to just review what's going on and give input. He had immediately called them and said you need to get Dr. So and So and fortunately that was who he was sent to. I believe at this point they're only planning radiation for now, but other options are definitely still open depending how things progress. They had said surgery was definitely a possibility down the road. There was some concern about a "mouth issue" but happily that turned out to be a dental problem he was already aware of and not cancerous:)

I did not get to attend the meeting because there were some communication issues so I didn't get time of appt until it was too late to get there, but I passed on the write it down idea since I do that myself.

Fortunately I have 5 weeks vacation (well 4 after this week) this year, so my work is aware they may have to work around me periodically.

Thank you guys! My prayers are with all of you as well.

Kaye