I just got home from being discharged. I also just got a call from my oncologist congratulating me that the mass taken out turned out not to be cancer spreading!!! so excited, i feel like a new man! so this new aggressive treatment is working, in which I have done 3 full chemo treatments and now i will take 2 weeks to heal and start 7 wks of radiation/chemo. I feel good. getting used to not having a full tongue. every once in a while I can touch my teeth. I dont care the ENT doc says that I wont ever touch my teeth again, I believe I will if I work hard and keep pushing myself.


Male, 29YO, Non-Smoker/Non-Tabocco use
DX: 7/11 with T4L1 tongue CA
Surgeries: July/11- 1/3 glossectomy,
Aug/11- 1/2 glossectomy w/reconstruction (flap from forearm), Neck Dissection (47 nodes, 1+), PEG
Regrowth after 1 month of chemo -10/29/11
Chemo: 9/13/11, 10/4/11
Radiation w/chemo: 11/11