Joe,

Thanks for replying to my inquiry - good to hear from you. It sounds like you have a good attitude going into treatment and that will help a lot. I didn't find this site during my treatment, in fact it was about a year after. I wish I had known this site was here - it would have been nice to exchange info with people who were going through what I was at the time. I visited your site at Caring Bridge and enjoyed getting to know you through it. Hope you and your wife get to visit Hot Springs soon - you're gonna need more water! There are lots of timeshares here in Hot Springs Village along with 8 golf courses and 7 lakes (not to mention our close proximity to Lake Ouachita) Definitely a nice place to live and visit.

Good luck with your treatments - eat your favorite foods between now and then. Those 6 weeks of daily radiation treatments will go by faster than you think.

Take care,

Pam


SCC Base of Tongue Stage IV- 2/04 - 40 Rads 1/2 conventional, 1/2 IMRT; 3 chemo treatments consisting of Carboplatin/Taxol/5-FU; Right Radical Neck Dissection
7/04; scans and pathology clear