Not yet ... it is SO hard to find the time to practice wearing them, since I am so behind on regular nutrition that I need to NOT be wearing them so I can eat when I'm able ... catch-22. They've helped me get them shaped better, so that's good ... but I'm not in a physically (or mentally) healthy place right now. My various docs are working on it.

Oh, and my old speech therapist went and left that company while I was out... I'm hoping that they might tell me where she went. Not that the other ladies aren't good too, I'm sure, but with all the other stress, it would do me a lot of good if I could get back with the person who already knows me and has the rapport. She's great at balancing the nagging and the sympathy.

It's always something ... but I suppose it could be worse.

Surgery 5/31/13
Tongue lesion, right side
SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated
T1N0 based on biopsy and scan
Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes
12/2/13 follow-up with concerns
12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned
1/8/14 Port installed
PEG installed
Chemo and rads
2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads
March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June
2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia
Fall 2017: HBOT
Jan 18: oral surgery