Hi y'all! I'm Shelby, 19 years old and was diagnosed with stage 2 or 3 tongue cancer. I'm a nursing student at UK (well was I guess, taking the semester off for treatment). They don't know the stage yet because I'm doing my PET scan tomorrow. on the 27th I have a partial glossectomy and neck dissection. I'm really nervous I won't be able to eat normally ever again. They're taking little over half my tongue and replacing it with tissue from my arm and then skin grafting my arm. How long were y'all in the hospital for after surgery and how bad was it?

Shelby, 28 yrs old, stage 3 tongue cancer, non- smoker, not HPV, 12/27/12 partial glossectomy and neck dissection, 1 lymph node positive, Chemo and Rad 5 days a week, 32 treatments, feeding tube in, finish treatment 3/22/13 smile back to normal basically