Spoken like a true addict! "One is too many and 100 aren't enough."

You should all be holding hands in the local hospital smoking cessation clinic.

I'm not surprised he's still on pain meds. My throat was totally fried and my tongue severely blistered. I was on pain meds a couple of months post Tx. I hacked up blood and dead tissue for a long time.

In all fairness to him - this is a very tough time right now. This is the time that severe depression sets in. Belligerence and anger are manifestations of that. The family needs to speak with his doctor about that. "Distress management" is part of the cancer experience.

http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/distress.pdf