Thanks, all of you! I now understand more clearly...and Gail, I believe that your statement regarding existing hearing loss is the very reason Buzz has been prescribed the carboplatin, instead of the cisplatin.

Poor guy has had a problem for years, finally got a hearing aide this Spring, but almost immediately lost it at the golf course!

With his diagnosis concerns, replacement of the hearing aide is somewhere near the bottom of our 'list of things to do'...

Tomorrow, we go for eye exam and replacement of glasses. Tuesday to Radiation Oncologist, Thursday back to Baptist Hospital and Friday to Salisbury VA for Rehab consult.

I figure rehab will be placed on the back burner because of the immediate need for rad/chemo...

Thanks again for your earnest responses!