Happy New Year - Just checking in to say hello :)

Hello Dear Old Friends...

(ok, not old, old, - but we've been around over a year now, and yes somedays we do feel old

Dan, my husband was diagnosed in Oct 2012, with Stage 4 Tonsil Cancer and it had metatisized to his limp nodes, all on the left side. We really wondered if we would be together this year for the holidays - and thankfully we were. So far all subsequent testing has come out very successful and we are ever so greatful. It was the people here on the board that got me as his caretaker through each and every day - the people I still think about on a daily basis and smile and say prayers for them and the support they continue to keep giving to those who took our seats on the treatment bus. The icing on the cake was my own surgery for my Thyroid was within a week of Dan getting his picc line removed after months of TPN, I had pappilary cancer diagnosis and now am happy friends with levothryroxine, and doing great as well  

Our only real complaint now is that Dan has little if any saliva and therefore has trouble sleeping for more than three hours at a time -- if he's lucky. Lets just say some days he not going to win Mr. Congeniality, but fortunately he gets it -- and does his best. I will take that any day as my biggest problem.

What everyone has, is, or is going to go through, it tremendous - it is life altering, oftentimes in good ways too. Never give up hope, try your hardest, it's all you can do. And never forget those who walked down the road with you.. or sat on the bus with you.. and never say never. For when you look up after the long haul, you will still see them there - smiling back   Thank you Matt.. and all.. I miss you guys!

Hugs Kari