Desiree..you are getting to be an old veteran at this game, and I am glad that things are moving along for you. I am sorry that you have to remain in the suspended animation of the unknown for a while longer. But it sounds like you have found a really good facility, where you belong and will get good and proper treatment if in fact you need it.
It is obvious that you are much calmer now than when you first thought that maybe you had cancer. That is the strange thing about being diagnosed. When it is new and you don't know much about it, the whole thing is overwhelming and very frightening. For some reason, once we are diagnosed or have spent some time going back and forth, like you have, things settle down and we become much more stoic about the whole situation. I still am hoping that it is not cancer, but I really admire you and appreciate that if you, in fact, do have cancer, you are now well informed and ready to do what you have to do to get past it and to be there for your beloved children.

Although I am quite a bit older than you, I started my family late and my oldest is just about to graduate high school and leave for college and the other two will be a freshman and sophmore in high school next fall. I love mine as you love yours and I know that you will get better and be there for graduations, weddings, and hopefully to one day hold your grandchildren.

Danny G.


Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.