Thanks Cheryl

I have been moving my tongue and doing some massaging although it causes pain. My doctor suspects my speech will improve with therapy but the limited ROM of my tongue may not. The adhesions may require surgical intervention in the months to come. Until then I have been refered to speech therapy and they will reassess later to determine if my tongue needs to be fixed and a graft applied.

And even though my cancer was poorly differentiated and the risk of re-occurance is still there, today I am currently CANCER FREE!!!! laugh

My tongue is still numb and the pain is still in the 5/10 or less. My tongue is thick looking on the surgical side, mostly due to adhesions and tends to deviate to the left (surgical side) rubbing up against my crooked teeth. :P

The hardest part of this is that everytime I speak it's a reminder that I had cancer, and as an umemployed single person...I have to figure out when I can go back to work and in what capacity. And what to tell people!! (employers, aquaintances, guys) frown

Has anyone out there, had their adhesions lysed/fixed? What was the recovery like? Similiar to your first surgery or less traumatic, painful etc? And how soon after your first surgery was that done?

Tracy Dx @ age 47
Single No dependants
NS/Social ETOH
Clinical Study (early detection)
Dx July/09 Mod. Dysplasia (lichen planus)
Dx Sept/11 TisN0M0 SSC Lt Tongue
Sx Oct/11 CO2 Laser Glossectomy
Sx Mar/12 Release of tongue anchoring (Skin graft)
Lingual Nerve Damage