I probably should have posted here before doing so a few minutes ago on the General Board.

By way of introduction, my name is Bill Dozier, 59 years old, married and live in GA. I was diagnosed with base of tongue SCC on April 27, 2006 by my ENT at Emory Hospital in Atlanta. The options were discussed and my ENT recommended a regimen of radiation and chemo as opposed to surgery. She recommended surgery only as a last resort due to possible resulting speech and forever taste bud destruction. I am now 4 weeks out of 33 rounds of radiation and a total of 4 chemo sessions. Please forgive my obvious lack of the common terms that so many seem to master who are veterans at this stuff.

I look forward to talking to others via this site although my time is limited. I have had a special problem in my case as I am self employed as basically a one man company in a service type business and have had that to tend to and worry about that during all of this. I personally feel that I have erred in reading too much on the web. It seems like up to now about the time I feel good about things I read something depressing on the web dealing with head/neck cancer.

I look forward to further awareness of this site whcih I just accidentally discovered earlier today.

Bill D.