I had a series of doctor appointments in August / September -- one with each of the three primary oncologists (Surgery, Radiation, Hematology). All declared that things still looked good. All indicated that I should continue to get better. The lingering issues continue to be: - very low white blood cell count - less than optimal saliva production - general weakness - brownish-white coating on my tongue preventing full recovery of taste I've begun reading everything I can about cancer recovery -- specifically as it relates to any dietary or lifestyle changes that could impact my immune system and "kick in" the production of white blood cells. About a month ago, I made the decision to take as much sugar and simple carbohydrate out of my diet as possible. This had a couple of effects: 1. I lost about 8 pounds in the first two weeks after doing this, 2. The coating on my tongue went away, my tongue is pink now, and I can taste pretty much everything! So....I probably had a lingering yeast infection that was destroyed when the source of yeast nutrition - sugar - was removed from my diet. I'll have another set of blood work done at the end of next week and I'm really hoping that 5+ weeks on this diet regime will have positively impacted some of these blood numbers. If not, at least I hope my blood sugar dips a bit, I've always been near the top end of "normal" ....also known as pre-diabetic. I am getting stronger -- but it is a joke how little strength / stamina I have. I've tried "jogging" -- not running, just jogging - I can get maybe a quarter mile before having to walk about a mailbox or two, then I can alternate jogging a few mailboxes before walking one or two. It takes about 15 minutes or so to make the 1.25 mile circuit that is our "block". The other thing that's a real hassle is related to the dry throat. Since my throat dries out easily, I drink a ton of water. That leads to a ridiculous amount of time spent going to the bathroom. In an effort to ease this problem, I've basically cut out caffeine and alcohol, but this is still an issue and it really controls my social life in insidious ways. (For example, I won't get into someone else's car for a drive longer than 15 minutes so I don't get trapped without the ability to control being able to pull over to use a bathroom.) Great stuff, huh?