Your friends and family will want to know how your treatments are coming along at every step of the way. Unless you want to spend your evenings telling the same stories over and over again, I suggest that you set up some form of communication link that reaches out to all of your friends and family on a regular basis. Here are some ideas:  E-Mail- On the advice of my brother-in-law we set up a group e-mail list. Each week Regina wrote an update on my treatment that we sent it out to a list that has grown to nearly 100 people. (Click HERE to see a sample of some of those messages.) You'll soon learn that if you miss a week you'll start getting emails from folks concerned that you've taken them off the list. Click HERE to see samples from the emails received back from those who supported me and my wife during this treatment. Their words of encouragement made us smile, built my internal will to fight, and reminded me that I was not alone in my battle.        Snail Mail- Address and stamp a bunch of envelopes that will go out periodically to all of your friends and family. Throughout your treatment all you'll have to do is write or type your message then copy it and stuff it in those envelopes.