your diagnoses sounds a lot like mine. I was diagnosed the same day. I had surgery april 13, 2010. I had stage 3 on the right lateral of my tongue, with perineural invasion, but mine was well differentiated, but I had a hemiglossectomy, right side neck dissection where they removed 40 lymph nodes. I am almost a month out of surgery. And I will have radiation starting in about a month.

If you would like to chat, just let me know.

Oh and I will keep you in my prayers and hope all goes well with your surgery, and that they get clean margins.