Hello all,

I hope you're all keeping your spirits up and carrying on....

Sorry, I haven't written in awhile since my dear brother, only in his 50th year, got the diagnosis of throat cancer 9 months ago.

He lived through the neck surgery, 12 back teeth being pulled, the feeding tube for 3 months, 33 radiation & 6 weeks of chemo, the terrible Oxycontin, then back to full-time work with the Post Office after 6 months from the surgery date.

Now this: a recent lung scan, to a CT scan, to a PET scan scheduled for 2/28: looks like little white specs on the right lung, but a "worrisome mass" at the bottom of the right lung.

Chemo Dr. of the cancer team; says this is very, very bad news: "you can die."

John stopped twice on the phone call with me: to go away, "there's so much I still wanted to do...." Wife, Barbara, started crying. John is 20-year career Air Force veteran: tough, brave, you know.

Any comforting words from you kind souls would be so helpful......

I tried to tell John, well, maybe the CT scan is wrong, maybe it's an infection or something else...

Thank you very much for listenting.
Judy
I'm only 1 year older than brother John, he lives in Washington, I'm in Utah.