All I can say is WOW WOW and DOUBLE WOW. I learned so much listening to Dr Trotti and especially all the slides and charts and graphs. It's one thing talking to our doctors in the exam room and talking to each other on this site but to see slides and charts and graphs of all the things we talk about is really enlightening. And dummy me I didn't think to take a pen and paper.

Anyway there were 160 med students in attendance and Trotti did his thing for about 1 1/2 hours. After a short break, he introduced me and gave my history and then handed me a microphone and started asking me questions starting with "how did I find out I had cancer" and ending with " what am I feeling like 17 months post Tx". I talked for at least an hour and then he opened it up to a Q and A session and you should have seen the hands. I know I mentioned the OFC at least 20 times and I got to mention every thing everyone had suggested. I really felt I made an impact on these students and relationships with future cancer patients judging by the depth of their questions. He had to cut off the questions because we ran out of the alloted time.

Dr Trotti told me after the session that he wants to do this again and wants me to be be there. I told him that was up to him to make sure I was still kicking.

There was one thing funny that is worth mentioning. Dr Trotti gave a brief history of radiology and he said that the first Head and Neck patient treated with radiation was in 1902 (Jim remember?) and it was for cancer of the voice box in an attorney. True fact. Then he said with a straight face that it was the first mistake that medical profession admits to !! I can't wait to tell my lawyer friends.