Hey Michael,

Don't even think about stats...after my surgery I asked my Onc/ENT surgeon what was my prognosis (I'm stage III/IV)...the eyelid shutters came down and he said maybe 1 to 5. Well, I'm still here, still enduring the occasional thrush outbreaks, ulcers, unable to eat what I used to, still scared, but life is good. It's just some shit that we have to endure, another experience in interesting pattern called life. I feel a bit guilty about how I'm doing OK, when my friend has just been told that her last dose of chemo didn't work (she's had about the most of radio and chemo possible)... her lymphs are big (arm and leg)...she has cervical, inoperable now.

You never know how slim your margins are, just luck of the draw, like getting it in the first place...I can understand how you're feeling, been there, and sometimes go back :-), but it will all become a blur when you pass this hurdle, you'll forget what you went through, only when people ask what is was like. Just keep on working, playing, ignore this thing, it'll go away someday. I always say I'm too busy to have cancer (even though that little dark cloud is still up there, becoming smaller day by day).

Cheers!

Tizz
P.S. The calcium mousse doesn't come in chocolate, the vanilla one is recommended for xerostomia patients