@anbar04 Thank you so much for your well wishes! I'm glad you can get on with your life and head off to University!

If you don't mind sharing, whereabouts are you headed to University? I went to University of Delaware.

Are there some more treatments planned, or is it just recovery and physical therapy type stuff for you? That rejection had to be really rough for you. I can't even imagine.

I don't think I mentioned it here, but apparently I started grinding my teeth hard due to the stress during the timeframe between when the dentist found the recurrence, the months for confirmation and the months for getting referred to MD Anderson and starting actual treatment.

Due to the grinding, I cracked three teeth, scattered around - both sides upper plus lower left (above the tumors). Had my first crown on a natural tooth earlier this week - temporary, of course while the permanent one is being made. Not fun, but a lot better than jaw surgery! They'll start on the upper left when I go back for the permanent on upper right in a couple of weeks. Not going to do the lower left until I have more confidence I'll actually keep the tooth - and it's also the only one which doesn't bug me at all.

I've been using a night guard since the cracked teeth were found.