Cheryl,

Thanks for your reply. I'm very sorry to hear that your husband had a stroke last year. That's another burden on top of the cancer. I certainly understand how he feels about more surgery as I was under for about 12 hours. Sounds like his original surgery was much like mine.
My ENT is a top notch surgeon but has a reputation for being very conservative when it comes to starting therapy or any follow-on surgery until the last ship has docked. That's a good thing since I also had to have my jaw split but so far no complications.
His main point about freeing up a simulated tongue like mine is that mobility without control doesn't buy you anything. I think another part of his reticence to do it is that he feels I'm still healing (16 months post surgery and 13 post rad). If I don't find any alternatives, I may approach him next year to see if he changed his mind. Best new is that I'm still free of cancer!

Take care,
Jim