Thank you Jimmy for the kind words they mean a great deal to me !
A bit more on the above story is that I lost both my parents to basically cancer and it's treatment ! My dad to prostate cancer then my mom to ovarian cancer years ago I had a front row seat to watch from .
In 2017 I have a lump starting at my jaw running down to my collar bone , I'm lethargic ( worse than normal even ha ha ) and it's about 2" wide and 1\2" thick . my general Dr thought it was a form of skin cancer after a bunch of tests they figured out it was P - 16 HPV the cancer they suggest you vaccinate your sons for in their early teens .
Mine was a small dot in my tonsils , which the Dr removed a tough surgery when you're in your late 50's !
Then recovery is challenging at times also , when the blood clot breaks loose , mine did ! While I live 125 miles from the hospital where they worked on me , A quick trip back there to get fitted for the mask to wear during radiation treatments and I was sent off to surgery again to fix it , at this point I had filled 8 spit sacks with blood clots , my blood pressure was normally 140 over 80 in other words high but now it was 90 over 60 and starting a IV was difficult at best .
This set back the start of treatments by a couple more weeks . then bad teeth needed to be fixed or removed ! As there is no visits to the dentist after cancer treatments start for fear of infections .
My advice if your still reading this stay healthy and keep eating while going through cancer treatments ! Feeding tubes suck because I quit eating so they made me get a feeding tube , oh yes and I quit chewing Copenhagen cold turkey on Dec 2 nd 2017 at 10:30 am was my last dip ha ha !
Just the sight of food makes you sick things get tough , it throw up in the middle of the night even if I had a dream of enjoying a steak dinner or eating a slice of pizza !
Then to get rid of the tube you have to eat normal food for a month and gain weight back , another challenge !
This is where I'll quit for now before the other issues and fun stuff that happened .
So a positive attitude is paramount to make it and a stubborn streak a mile wide doesn't hurt either ha ha anyone who wants to know more about this feel free to send me a private message and I'll gladly do what I can to answer questions or comments as best I can !
I did loose a friend while we both were fighting cancer he was much older than me and a coyote hunting fool , we'd talk briefly each Friday until he passed away .
No my throat cancer wasn't caused from me chewing Copenhagen it was passed down to me from my parents .
Now you know the rest of the story !
