Thank you all for your support and thoughts! we arrived yesterday and although the travel part was exhausting for him, we were so happy to all be together-he is even going to try some mac and cheese for christmas dinner!
anyway,.. he was told by the surgeon that the larynx would be removed, but there were definate options for speech, it's just we have no clue what was available, or what it involves ( not seeing the speech therapist for a couple of weeks) so i'm just now finding out what kind of options by doing alittle research on the net. eileen, i would appreciate hearing of your experience and how your life is now, if you would share that with me.
thanks again everyone, you give me hope.
emma