To Jane P:

Thanks so much for writing.

It sounds like your husband is vey similar to me with several recurrences. I have constant pain with my sores and leukoplakia. I've had two surgeries in the last 3 months both ending with clean margins and no radiation or chemo has been recommended ever. The Dr. tells me that chemo is not appropriate for this type of cander and he wants to "save" radiation for a later time. ]\\

We do catch these early as I get checked every 90 days and some times sooner if I'm complaining a lot about the sores.

I slso see a pain mgmt Dr. who has me on morphine and fentanoly suckers 24/7. They make me feel physically better but very 'fuzzy". It's very hard to concentrate at work.

I was ok after the first several surgeries as I would have several years between them, but now they come more often and I'm getting very depressed about it now becasue every time I start to get my life back together, here comes another surgery.

Any suggestions on dealing with the emotional aspect better.

I feel that working 30 hours a week instead of full time, might ease things up a bit, but my oncologist feels gung ho on my getting back to regular life immediately after each surgery.