Dear Millie,

I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your husband. It is scary to all of us how fast and often random this cancer can be. Until finding this board, so many of us feel isolated because we don't know anyone with a similar cancer. I feel the guilt of a survivor as I write to you now. I've now lived with this disease longer than your husband did. Yet, I realize that I could easily have been him.

Remember the fun, his smiles, and what he would say to you. A piece of him truely lives on in you, and I am sure that while the suffering you both went through was horrendous, I am sure that it often brought you closer together and brought more of a tenderness.

You are in my thoughts and prayers. Wishing you strength as you go through this difficult time,
Michelle


History of leukoplakia <2001-2004. SCC lateral tongue 9/03; left radical neck dissection & hemiglosectomy 10/03, T2-3,N0M0; 28 IMRT radiation completed 12/03. 30 HBO dives Oct-Nov 04 for infections and bone necrosis -mandible.