I have had partial glossectomy with neck disection. Post op course was really hard, had 5 days of brachytherapy direct to the tongue.. 3 out of 28 nodes are positive so will be having 5 weeks of radiation with one day of chemo each week.. not at all what we were hoping for.. but this is life.
I am happy to be home now recovering with my amazing family around.. trying to eat enough calories before starting rad and chemo as I understand it will be difficult to eat due to throats pain, although it is difficult now due to continued tongue swelling, my mom is an amazing soup maker and is working on her smoothie skills. Still contemplating having a peg. I'm airing on the side of no as I believe I will be able to push through the pain and get enough calories and worse come to worse I can have a nasogastric tube put in if I really can't.. any advice or thoughts would be great.