I'm actually feeling a lot better today and had a great night of sleeping (only up twice, with minimal spit/rinse needed)... The new meds (and a lot of prayer from family and friends) have helped tremendously... laugh smile :p

The only thing keeping me from eating out the refrigerator is that there still is a pretty intense "burning" feeling in my mouth when I put anything other than water in there... Even using Lidocain doesn't seem to help much... I'm trying to down some Gatorade and drink a soy smoothie (with lots of peaches and weight-gain powder blended in), and every mouthful is tough...

But, things seem to be looking up overall, which is great...


Tongue cancer (SCC), diagnosed Oct. 2003 (T2 N0 M0). Surgery to remove tumor. IMRT Radiation 30x in Dec 2003 - Jan. 2004. Recurrence lymph node - radical neck dissection June 2004. Second round of rad/chemo treatments ended Sept. 2004.