My speech has improved with each surgery to correct the join between tongue and flap. I sounded different after each one.
That�s why I put speech therapy on the back burner after the original operation.
One thing I will always remember is talking to a supplier on the phone.
He asked me what I was eating mad
I told him I wasn�t eating anything and the reason why I sounded the way I did�..
It went quite on the other end of the phone for a while....then the apologies started..
Needless to say I don�t deal with this person anymore.

History Leukoplakia bx 8/2006 SCC floor mouth T3N0M0- Verrucous Carcinoma.
14 hour 0p SCC-Right ND/excision/marginal mandibulectomy 9/2006, 4 teeth removed, flap from wrist, trach-ng 6 days- no chemo/rad.
6 ops and debulking (flap/tongue join) + bx's 2006-2012.
bx Jan 2012 Hyperkeratosis-Epithelial Dysplasia
24cm GIST tumour removed 8/2013. Indefinite Oral Chemo.

1/31/16 passed away peacefully surrounded by family