Welcome, Oscar. Let us help you through this difficult time. I did not have radiation, but I know the sadness you are feeling. If it continues....please see about getting an antidepressant for a while. I truly believe that there is often a sense of such loss......sometimes specific, sometimes generalized....loss of lifetime, loss of confidence in our good health.....whatever it might be, the sense is very real, and the grieving is very real..it was for me, anyway.

You have had the best care, evidently, and you will continue to get it, so you can be confident that you are doing the right thing if you do what they recommend.

Keep us posted!

XO--Colleen

Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!