I could spend weeks catching up and reading each story here. All I have read thus far have touched me and made me feel so much less like a freak with all these scars and not having the ability to eat like others. I actually had some co-workers who laughed at my peanut butter sand I took each night b/c it was all I could eat without having to chew. I was mortified but suffice to say I am much stronger now and can fight back...LOL. I am honored to be in such great company here. Wish I could have signed in last year when before I went back to work.


T2N1M0 Stage IV SSC right lower alveolar ridge with fibula free flap, Peg, trach, selective neck dissection,one node positive. No Chemo or radiation.Surgery 3/08.Cancer free for 2 years as of March 13.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.