A few things I forgot to mention in orginal note:

1. On a personal history side...I'm 60 (will be 61 on July 26). I'm 6'4 and very overweight going in, was about 390 lbs 1st of the year...now weight about 365 (no real diet..just by eating better)...remember haven't started any treatments yet). Only major medical thing that has happened to me in my 60 years was a 'quadruple' heart bypass about 8 years ago. Recently had stress test and echo whatever test and they turned out excellent.

2. Had a 'port' put in about 3 days ago. I'm anticipating this will help me a lot when it comes to the drawing of blood when necessary, the chemo treatments, and maybe IV stuff I may have to go thru. Being overweight, my veins are hard to find and I didn't look forward to all the poking EVERY time, etc.

3. I wouldn't mind at all losing some more weight in this thing as long as it can be the 'right' weight and can stay healthy in the process. Guess I'll need to work closely with a nutritionist on this. Most posts I've seen are people that are despartely trying to maintain or gain weight thru all this. Heck, I still need to lose a whole person to get where I should be (about 150lbs). I say again...losing the weight could be a 'good' thing only if I can do it healthy.

4. On the 'work' front. My boss has been very supportive of this going in. Almost 95% of what I do doesn't involve 'interaction' with people. I work in an office and most of what I do is on the computer and it looks like I may be able to set it up to work at home. I'm actually planning on using this work thing at home as part of my therapy. A person can take only so much tv and sleeping. I feel I'm going to really need something to take my mind off what's happening to my body as much as possible. Doing this at home I can work a bit...if I get really tired, take a nap. If I get sick...I can in privacy of my home rather than at work (which would not be a good scene I'm sure). At least that's the plan...stay tunned.

5. Just now got a call from my cancer center and they just set up a 'swallowing study' from next Monday. (and here I thought I was done with test, silly me!).

6. Also just had catract sugery about a month ago which is HIGHLY recommended if anybody is considering this. At least I can freaking see now.

Now, you probably know a ton more about me than you ever wanted to. Just wanted to give a clear picture of me going into this.