Here we are again. Wednesday Erik discovered a lesion on his tongue, Thursday the doc saw him, Friday he had surgery and a positive diagnosis. They didn't even take time to do a PET/CT scan or anything. Planning that next week. Doc removed a quarter sized patch and fairly deep, but thankfully got clear margins. Now we wait for final path report and scans to know stage. But really does the stage matter at this point? It's cancer, it's a reoccurrence and it sucks. Bad night tonight-hate that he has to go down this road again,we all have to go down this road again. Seriously 3 times really rotten luck.


Caregiver to Erik -1st DX 12/22/2005 SCC of Tongue, T3N1M0, hemi-glossectomy,60 nodes removed, carboplatnin,Erbitux, 35Rads.
Reoccurrence T1N0M0 4/14/08-partial glossectomy-16 weeks Erbitux and Taxol-
3rd reoccurrence 5/18/12- partial glossectomy