Hi Brian:

have received lots of additional correspondence from nurse friends and other survivors. We are pretty sure Dave is going to do the surgery with the lymph node dissection on 9/16 followed by radiation and hopefully not chemo too but we'll see. The info about the tissue sloughing does make sense but you are right-it's a bonus prize not for the faint of heart to swallow no pun intended.

Think Dave is going to e-mail you directly but once again,let me thank you on behalf of both of us for your expedient replies and amazing support. I am hooked on this board and see it as a safe place for us and lots of others.

Best,

Kim


kcdc
Wife of Dave,diagnosed with Stage III Tonsillar SCC,August '02
Modified radical neck dissection followed by radiation therapy
'There is glory and radiance in the darkness and to see we have only to look"