I also googled oral cancer and found you. I wish I had found this site when I was being treated, but it was after I had already gone back to work. I usually check it out several times a week, and more often, now that I have retired from my job. This is my only cancer support group, but I frequently talk with another oral cancer patient who was diagnosed a couple of months after I was. I reccomended this site to her, but not certain if she has checked it out.

Female, nonsmoker, 70, diag. 5/09 after tongue biopsy: stage IV. Left hemi-gloss. and left selec. neck disec. 30 lymph nodes removed May 20. Over 7 weeks daily rads. with three chemo. PEG removed 12/4/09 Am eating mostly soft foods. Back to work 11/09 Retired 4/1/11. 7 clear scans! Port out 9/11. 2/13. It's back: base of tongue, very invasive
surgery involving lifestyle changes. 2/14: Now speaking w/Passey-Muir valve. Considering a swallow study. Grateful to be alive.