All our docs and nurses have been informed by me to sound encouraging when talking to Jim. I am not hiding anything from him, but a brutal approach would put him into a further depression. -- Claudia

Husband 2/3 tongue removed March 2008. Free flap. . Stage IV. Radiation and 3 chemo's (cisplatin,taxol & erbitux). .Pet scan Aug 08 showed mets to lungs .Oct 08, recurrence. - In the arms of Jesus, July 15, 2009