Hi, I was glad to see Dee post but not what she posted. Oh, I know how Packer feels, he was doing what he loves , to walk his dog and someone ruined the day for him. This hurts, you feel like someone punched you in the gut.I have heart people say stuff as they walk away from me, or they just stare. No one ever did what they did to Packer but you go along happy at your successes and try filling you life more with good things and someone drags you back and says its really ugly out there.There is a man that lives in the small town I live in who has a purple face. It is a birth mark, he has no other problems, He lives alone and rides his bike all over town. I have heard people make fun of him.He has lived his whole life this way.I think for most of my life I was normal, this poor guy never was. Also, some posts are confusing at points to those of us that have major physical problems, the neck thing , I keep hearing everyone complain about the neck, scars, waddle, I have been cut on both sides and I would go and look and wonder why they are so worried about it? Well my skin and jaw was hanging low on my face then, they then put support tissue in and put new jaw replacement in and angled it level like it should be, I turned my head by the mirror the other day and thought "Oh crap, what will I ever do about that?"It is terrible! I had so many problems before I never thought this looked bad. I look like someone had a sword fight in front of my neck.So every problem is big no matter what level.It comes back to where this post started what I can still do, the real big one is, if your reading this your still alive, after that the rest is a gift.


gnelson, StageIV, cancer free since Nov.9,2000