If your mom would like to personally talk with me on the phone, please contact me at [email protected] and we can coordinate a time. I will try to put her mind at rest regarding the process...not that it is easy, or painless, but that it is doable. That the life after treatments with family and friends is worthwhile, and is a life which has a wonderful taste that only those who have fought for it understand fully. In the last year I have "watched" two people die from choosing too late to move forward with treatment, selecting it only when the reality and fear of death, overcame the fear of the healing process. If I can help you convince her to not delay, to look to a positive and worthwhile future, I will try. This is the essence of our universal existence, the constant struggle of personal will over fear of the unknown. So many die from OC already, people who do not have a choice, that when there is the opportunity to survive, it must be grasped. I can't do this for everyone, but I do not wish to see another lost from fear instead of the disease. Please contact me if I can help.

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.