And while I am on that soap box, people that post here that they (even proudly) state that they got through it all without one, by promoting the "I toughed it out perspective" they do a disservice by forgetting that we all come to this disease with different stages of the disease, different abilities to tolerate discomfort, even different levels of fear tolerance, and different amounts of oral mucositis sores, et. etc. . I have respectfully argued this point with Mark in many previous postings. They are still here, with all the jabs and passion for each perspective for anyone to see, as he says via the search engine.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.