Gary, beautiful post. Ditto the "warrior" thing........I wasn't a "warrior" during treatment and I'm still not, at the moment I'm losing sleep over this implant business and true warriors don't pace the floors at night!

The day I accept some of the situations I see others on this board dealing with, and with the same amount of dignity.........that is when I will consider myself a warrior. For now, I'm just one lucky woman that is still here to see her children grow.

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.