so sorry to hear another one young join the ranks, but there are a few of us on here. I too was told it wasn't cancer and had a 5 month period of battling with docs and finally got my biopsy and it was same as yours.
Sounds like we had almost same surgery, but i had right side neck dissection as well. My question is what stage was it? I am assuming no lymph nodes were involved, and that you probably had scans, but did you have any scans to make sure no lymph nodes were involved? Also was it a partial glossectomy or a hemi-glossectomy? Partial is only part, and hemi is half, i had a hemi glossectomy and the removed whole right half of my tongue in order to get clear margins.
Glad to hear you are healing, I am almost a year out, and I am also hoping you don't have to have rad or chemo!
Any luck on the baby process with your wife yet?
Hope all is well for you otherwise and hoping you don't have too many issues with any part of healing!!
25/female at diagnosis Dx;stage 3 SCC tongue 03/25/2010 Surgery 04/13/2010 Trach,ng tube, peg feeding tube Hemiglossectomy, right side neck dissection, 40 lymph nodes removed. Free-Flap transplant to tongue. 30 rounds IMRT ended July 15,2010 |