Cheryl, wishing you good luck on your surgery. You may find it comforting to know that my aunt had a little over 1/3 of her tongue removed on the left side last year. If you met her today you would never know! She has a ver slight lisp with "s" and "c" sounds but otherwise sounds totally normal. She is eating well and even after radiation is now saying certain foods are "DELICIOUS".

Thinking of you

Dodie

Aunt diag. 2/4/10 with SCC Stage I/II on left side of tongue. Surgery 2/19/10 part. gloss./neck diss. on left side/free flap from chest muscle. TI/II,NO,MO. Clear margins with perineural invasion. Started rads 4/8/10 - 35 treatments, finished 5/26/10.