Danny Boy -- you are a good man... I look forward to being one of the many who shakes your hand in Vegas in September... Although I don't like to curse, I think you may have coined the unofficial OCF motto -- "We're stubborn sons of bitches" -- in another post...

Tongue cancer (SCC), diagnosed Oct. 2003 (T2 N0 M0). Surgery to remove tumor. IMRT Radiation 30x in Dec 2003 - Jan. 2004. Recurrence lymph node - radical neck dissection June 2004. Second round of rad/chemo treatments ended Sept. 2004.