Marlene, I'm hoping you get the best outcome too. I totally understand caring more about not being able to talk than not being able to eat but remember that what's most important is to make sure everything possible is being done to get all of the cancer.

I recently had a conversation with my medical oncologist who told me MRIs aren't the best at detecting early cancers in the throat or on the tongue and I guess the fact that you recently had one that showed everything looked good but had biopsies that chowed cancer in the esophagus is a confirmation of that. Which scares me because I had a PET that showed some "Marginal" suspicious areas, even thoiugh my ENT saw nothing when he scoped me, and *he* told me that I should be reassured that the MRI looked normal as well.

There's just no end to the scary stuff we can face at any moment thanks to this disease. We're all here thinking of you and knowing we could be in your shoes.

Nelie