When people on the street ask how I am, I always smile my now crooked smile and always say " I am fine thank you, for what I have I am doing very well...how are you?" I find it puts people at ease and they can either escape easily or stay to chat.


55 yrs, Female, smoked for 4 yrs 35 yrs. ago, SCC right underside tongue and floor of mouth, laser surgery took 1/3 tongue Aug 2010, 3 weeks later in Sept right neck dissection 40 nodes removed with 1microscopic spot in one node. No chemo or radiation.