Hi Stephen,
Very glad to hear you are one of the very few lucky ones able to have the Whipple; sorry to hear your recovery was so long. Most folks who have the Whipple have both chemo & radiation. Suggest you visit the Johns Hopkins support board; it is much more active than this board. There are many survivors and care givers who have lots of experience and will be pleased to help you by answering all your questions and offering opinions and advice if that is what you want. They are mostly kind and very knowledgeable. Most of them advise aggressive chemo since PC is a very aggressive cancer and takes no prisoners.
Do you mind saying who your surgeon was and which hospital ypu were in? There is a group that meets in Northlake, think it's the first Thursday of every month; hear it's a very good meeting, run by a survivor. Just ask, someone on the Johns Hopkins board will probably have the details.
Best wishes for continued success,
Joan