Hi Lori... Wow! I'm surprised they gave you rads and chemo first. I had my surgery with dr. Johnathan Irish at PMH (he's head dude there) as well. he does a special surgery where he can see the cancer in real time as he's cutting. he was seriously considering not giving me rads and chemo because he was petty certain he got it all. He removed 1/3 of my tongue it was rebuilt by a dr. Goldstein in the same surgery he did a fantastic job. My tumor was 2.4 x 1.4 cm - They decided to add rads and chemo because I had perineural involvement and ECE of my node. Both him and the rads guy were on the fence but I wanted this treated aggressively so they went ahead with it.
I had a tube but couldn't tolerate the feeds - so I sucked it up and chugged ensure. I'm doing fine right now, hopefully things stay that way - you never know with this disease. Eating is fine - some acidic and spicy foods irritate me but I'm not really restricted I just take them minimally. I don't eat meat - so that's not an issue and I've given up bread because I don't do white flour or sugar any more, I'll occasionally have a multigrain wrap or multigrain bread but rarely.
Other than that I pretty much eat what I want, but I also do physio, lymphatic massage and acupuncture it's all helped with the healing.

Branford must have been a big drive, but you got treatment at a great hospital. My rads guy was dr. Cho.

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Feel better... So glad your so far out! It's awesome.

Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan