Pete D

Reading your posts and the laundry list of surgery you endured does give me hope. Yes, you are exactly right about percentage of tongue. ENT stressed that she is taking out the back bottom of the tongue and lower left side while hoping to leave as much as the front as she can. And yes I did change my position and say once in take as much as you need to get really clear margins.
Unlike yourself, I intend to take a break from posting during surgery and hospital stay - since no laptop and no more blackberry, but otherwise I hope to emulate your "ironman" style (the tinman syndrome ? was just homage to my all time favorite book Wizard of Oz where the woodman is slowly cut off piece by piece until becoming the tin man )