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Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 329 | It will be 2 years in April for me. If I eat crackers it feels like I'm eating sandpaper. If I eat any dairy products my tongue feels twice the size. I still talk with a lisp and if I talk too fast my words run together. When this happens my friends and I look at each other and laugh, what the heck did she just say...Oh, here's a goodie some food sticks to my teeth and I don't know it..... not a pretty picture. My cheek is some what numb I usually pinch it and it wakes up if that makes any sense.
Yes, we are all recover in our own way.
SCC. of the left lateral tongue, anterior two thirds, T1 possibly a T2.
Left partial glossectomy, left selective neck dissection 4/21/09. Nodes clean, No Rad, No Chemo.
CT Scan 9/11 clean, CT Scan 9/12 clean
Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. A+.
My hometown Lockport, NY.
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