True, Jim, can you imagine trying to go on a nice relaxing backpacking trip in the Sierra wilderness or somewhere with helicopters circling overhead and secret service behind every tree?
Anyway, my wife and step son have been pretty good through all this but I don't tell them much of anything negative because my wife had a knee replacement surgery that went wrong and so lives in constant pain with that and her son is juvenile diabetic (he's now 40 and has lived with that disease for 33 years) so there's enough negative stuff around here without me adding to it so I just say I'm fine and listen to their problems. So, really, thank you all for letting me whine a little. I'll keep it to a tolerable level.

David R. 65 yr old male non-smoker, light drinker, stage 3 or 4, depending on which doc you ask, scc rt. tonsil, 2 nodes, 7 weeks radiation and chemo. No surgery. Teatment ended 3/20/08. PET scan 8/08 showed no cancer.
And now, as of oct, 2010, caregiver to wife, Linda, with breast cancer.
May, 2013, Linda diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. Enuf already.