Hi Shera, Kudos to your doctor for recognizing a difficult case and sending you to a top notch facility. Please feel confident in the choice of MD Anderson. It is one of the very best.

I am sorry you are going from survivor back to patient. You have already been through a terrible ordeal because of oral cancer. I can only imagine how frightening it must be for you to be facing it again.

Did your doctor discuss with you tongue reconstruction procedures? There are people here on the OCF forum who have been through a glossectomy and reconstruction and are able to speak and eat quite well. Not only have they survived...they have triumphed over it. You sound like a fighter who is ready to step back into the ring again for another win. I have no doubt that you can do it.

Please keep us posted on what you find out from MD Anderson.

Take care,

Sandy