The big C
Dear Gunner and Tony,
I too had a cancer at 32 years of age.
I was flying with both a CAA and FAA license at the time and rather unusually the CAA were far faster in removing the restrictions than their American counterparts when I eventually got a clean bill of health.
Life insurance, mortgage etc.. became harder to come by and eventually the FAA aquiesced and my pilot medical was granted.
I thought fighting the cancer was supposed to be the tough part - turns out that fighting the bureaucracy created by it once you have come out of the other side and survived can be just as hard.
Good luck with the authorities, we are the lucky ones,
SB