Hi David,
I believe that I did already read your post - I've been hanging around since I was diagnosed back on 3/15. I frankly stopped reading about individual people's experiences for a while as I was really finding that I was much more anxious after reading the horror stories. It is bad enough that I'm on this pathway - but since I don't have many other choices right now - I'm going to have to make it through this trip. As my husband and I were saying today - the fear and anticipation has been far worse than the actual experience - not to say that the experience has been fun (hardly!). I know that every person is an individual, and what happens to one might not happen to all. There seems to be a very fine line between educating yourself and scaring the bejeezus out of yourself. I'm trying to gracefully walk that line without tipping into fear.