I'm sorry for having to go thru this...but I have a question, is everybody or anybody mute from this? silenced forever? sure don't sound like it to me thru all these postings, so please don't think of it that way if this is going to be you're way of life after surgery. because you can still get your point(s) accross without speaking them verbally! and i would really like to know is everybody silenced through the surgeries they've had? Ron has had more than half his tongue removed, his voicebox is still intact(i understand if you had cancer in your voicebox you can not speak without a machine right?) but he can talk and bitch at me with no problem! he may not be able to pronounce certain letters but I and everybody he speaks to can understand him just fine. so I don't think you would be considered a mute from removal and transplant of a flap right? just one of those questions I have never seen really answered on how well everybody can speak, alot of you have even gone back to work so I can't see muteness here.
Good Luck and keep postive is that OK to say?