Hi Sue Thanks for your lovely email! I live in Mount Evelyn. Id love to met up for a coffee sometime so please email me and maybe we can meet half way (I think I gave you our phone and address) but if not remind me. You are LUCKY not to have had to have radiation...and I was the same as you with my ulcer. It was more annoying than painful but it was when I was in Alaska working on a cruise ship (Im a singer/pianist) it started to get sore. When I got home (after 4 month contract) there was a little lump there which scared the hell out of me...and then after my biopsy I was like you "if only....etc" but at least we are lucky that we have the tretments now that a few years ago we would have been dead without! Hope to meet you soon! love Lyn