Thanks
anxiao. What a fascinating and eloquent summation of your experience, and may you "become airborne
on your 0500 departure" again soon.
Re the dreaded decision between surgery or radiation, I will always remember Boeing Boy's quote: "The sword or the death ray".
It sounds like you were (and still are) in excellent hands.
Fingers crossed, for all of us, that the @#$%^& doesn't come back.