Hi all, Thank you Eileen for your insight,I don't understand his reluctance and PT is covered by my insurance.I do construction work so it is imperative I retain motion and rebuild stregnth. I also wondered about his comment that this was still curable. Of course surgeons have crappy bedside manners ,but he was very reluctant to share things like staging and long term prognosis.So I felt somewhat munipulated and patronized as in I=surgeon=God you=patient=mere mortal just do as I say.What concerns me is that the James Cancer hopital is on those lists as one of the best no. 17 I think. So (and this guy is head of dept. and director of entire hospital)maybe i am the idiot!If I go elsewhere -where should I go? susanlaura1