Dan - I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I'm praying for a coma to get there. I don't know how you guys (encompassing term- not gender biased! ) went through longer and/or stronger rad beams. I keep saying "if they did it, I can do it." That little voice is turning it into a question, though .

Ed - I can COMPLETELY imagine that. I felt the water and everything. I went to Vietnam and one trip let us go through the underground tunnels. There were probably 50 of us, and I'm somewhere in the middle. At the very end, when the tunnels were the smallest and the darkest, I almost lost it. Kept my eyes closed and pretended I was in bed asleep. Never again, thank you! And those were the "larger" tunnels for us big 'ol Americans. Wow!

Mandi - thanks for the encouragement (and to Dan and Ed). I can't wait for the time the treatment isn't scarier than the disease itself.

Sabrina