Great info Gary, you are so correct that we are a market driven society. Only here can a 9th grade dropout that has a talent for teaching a child to tumble make more per year then our public school teachers. $50 an hour for a private, and believe it or not, I pay it! AND, I know how to teach tumbling, but try teaching your own child, lol.

Not to beat a dead horse, but my questions are more about a transplant. I'm reading that they are now taking and moving a radiation patients salivary gland before that patient begins radiation, moving it out of the radiation field. Then they move it back to it's original location so it can function properly. That option, obviously, isn't there for most of us anymore. So, why can't an organ donor's salivary glands be transplanted into people like us? That is my biggest question.

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.