God Bless you and your family! Thank you for your response. I can see the value of this message board!
Monday I have surgery to biopsy my tonsil area - my tonsils were removed when I was 18 and the following Thursday I meet with the oncologist for an assessment and probably more testing. They do suspect the primary is in the tonsil area.
Quite a change of lifestyle - I, too, am 60 and a widowed single-mom to a 19 year old boy who wants to be involved with this process. We will get through this and I thank you so much for your honesty. I suspected the treatments would be rough and I know that I will want to say "STOP" - AND, I will not stop because I want to live a long life.
We are getting organized this week and pulling together our support group. God, family, friends.....Isn't that what life is truly about? When something like this hits home, life really condenses to what is important.