Hi all,
My name is Wendy, I have just been diagnosed with tongue cancer. It has not been staged yet. Today i go to my first apt it ENT specialist. I think it may be fairly serious. With everything I have found on the internet I am guessing T4, I won't know about the "N or M" factors until complete testing is complete. I am finding the most difficult part right now, trying to figure out how to tell people. I have 2 adult children and a 14 yr old who just lost a pet due to cancer... I just don't know how this is all going to work out. I couldn't sleep, it is now 5:30 am, I have been up since 4am. I am sure just one of many sleepless nights to come.

I had been haveing some dental problems and gotton a sore on the side of my tongue. Assuming that when the dental work was complete the sore would heal up and everything would be fine. So I didn't take any steps to resolve the sore. After waiting for my dental insurance pre authorization and planning the crowns and repair of my dental issues, I suppose about 6 months had gone by. Well with a 4 week proccess of getting a temp crown and then finally a permenant crown the sore did not heal. The final look from my dentist was on Tues September 15th, I was at the oral surgeon's office on Friday September 18th for a biopsy, and by Wed September 23rd was diagnosed with base of tongue cancer. My first appointmetn with the ENT specialist is today, Thursday Sep 24th. My oral surgeon was pretty upset and I think it will be only a matter of days that I will be in surgery. I don't know. I would like to keep a journal of this process. I am scared!