"Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 794 | Christine, I have had the exact thought.....that they will benefit from hearing our stories, and that they have found that working with professionals is a lot less trouble than letting us "real" people have our say. At least they have heard us and perhaps their final product will do some good in bringing greater awareness to some segment of the population. We don't even know what their purpose is/was in making this film. I do believe that they owe us some explanation or at least information about what they plan to do with the information that we provided. We shared openly with them with a certain expectation, and with not a little effort on the part of each person who participated.
Bravo for our OCF family to be so committed to helping others avoid this disease that we would come out in large numbers for this project. Whether or not it is ever completed is out of our control, but in some way we've helped. Maybe one of the interviewers learned something from one of us that will help him/her recognize a problem. That would be worth all the effort.
Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!
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