thank you Gloria. I wanted to keep things quiet the first round as I didn't want to be cornered every where I walked in to ask how he was doing. People have told me I was wise to do this. I had a private fb group to update about 25 people. He wanted everyone to know the first time around. This time, I have to keep quiet as he thinks he won't be able to get a job which we desperately need him to do after 3 months of just laying in bed doing nothing...not sick, lazy, feeling sorry for himself.

So I have told 4 people but some days, I wish people could know why I'm carrying a heavy load and why it's hard for me to make plans.

I will update as we go along. He is already prepared that there will be surgery, we just don't know which one. Tuesday, biopsy. The drive is much farther this time around.


Spouse of 58 yr old with BOT cancer
Stage 4a HPV16 positive
3 chemo treatments cisplantin
35 radiation treatments 7000 cGy
former smoker/chewed tobacco for 38 yrs.
1/2020 diagnosed with cancer near TMJ
4/2020 chemo 5 days every 2 weeks
6/2020 proton therapy
9/21/2020 cancer free