Thanks, Brian. I will starting posting from my first post from now on.

Yes, you are right. They do not want to do surgery as the tumor is laying on a bed of nerves underneath her tongue, and will only do this as a last resort. They say it would effect her eating, swallowing and speech. They were going to due Radiation too, but recently decided against that since the sores in her mouth are extensive and they said that radiation would make it worse. She is being seen at the Markey Cancer Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Her medicaid made be revoked due to an oversight on her part. And so getting a second opinion at this stage is somewhat sketchy. She has started the paperwork to get a second opinion but her caseworker has said it is a long process. I have heard of laser surgery for some types of tumors and we found out that the soonest she could get in to do this is March 21. It is something that would cost $700, which I am trying to scrape money up to do. Now she raised a question about that. Will being in treatment with chemo effect a second opinion for any reason? I think I need to call and ask them this. I don't see why not, but I'm not a professional. She is also quite anemic, and will have to have feeding tube if she loses another 5 pounds. She has also lost most of her teeth due to an infection or maybe the tumor/cancer itself. These are just some of the other things she is facing to give you more info.