I apapreciate the thanks, but the credit really goes to the many posters here that continue to come back and help opthers behind them in the process of understanding what is happening to them, and answering questions with knowledge drawn from their own experiences.

You can choose to approach all this with a desire to learn and fight or as in the previous post, you can resign yourself to things. If you have read any of my posts you know that I belive that infortmation is power, and that people should fight for every quality day that they can experience. What this board will hopefully help you do is find your path, understand the issues that come up, and make informed desisions, even if they are only what are the right questions to be asking.

If the doctors have thrown everything at the disease right form the get go, you have a good start. But there are always options even given less than positive statements by doctors who lack sensitivity or do not wish to express false hope. What I hope you get from the boards and the great people here, is a sense of a support system, and ideas for options as the need arises.

Don't give up that hopefulness that you mentioned, in spite of what are fatalistic comments from people or insensitive professionals.