Thanks, Brett, for your kind words. I sure do have my "pity pot" days and thankfully, they're only occassional. One of the reasons I came to this site is because only those of us who've gone through this can truly appreaciate what a struggle it is. My two brothers, both of them out of my state, try to understand and they do get on me about my smoking and drinking. I guess I've convinced myself that cancer is a crap shoot and people who don't smoke or drink have gotten cancers much worse than mine.

When I was going through MD Anderson for my dental oncologist, I saw many people, so very many people, who were hit with all kinds of oral cancers and I do remember feeling "fortunate".

Sandy