Yes, the sometimes very lonesome journey for sure!!
Having cancer does change everything, it is part of who you are, it is like the hitchhiker you never meant to pick up and now won't get out of your car! Just going along for the ride!
Although, I am a truly positive thinking happy person who never smoked and rarely drank I got this. I have asked why to myself a million times. I go to sleep thinking about it and I wake thinking about it. It is truly life altering in some ways for the good and in other ways it really stinks!
Having surgery very soon to remove what is hopefully a neuroma. It better be!

Adele,
mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the submandibular gland, 05/06, left neck dissection, gland and tumor removed, intermediate grade, margins negative, 9 lymph nodes negative, no rad, no chemo,
11/07 surgical biopsy of lymph node left neck, no cancer!