Thanks for all of the advice and encouragement. I promise to get my signature up as soon as I get my official diagnosis on Monday. Also wanted to clarify that I'm a non-smoker/tobacco user of any kind and fairly active so trying to stay optimistic about recovery.


Dan

Stage 4 SCC on right underside of tongue

DX on 7/19/13 at age 29, no tobacco, light drinking

Partial Glossectomy/reconstruction/neck disection 8/20/13
Temp Trach, PEG tube

4/59 lymph nodes cancerous, 1 with extracapsular extension

Chemo - Cisplatin - 3 treatments started on 10/01/13
Radiation - 33 treatments started on 10/02/13