Hi! I've been lurking on this site since I found out I had cancer mid-July. Which really suprised me! I don't drink/smoke/drugs. I don't even eat fast foods ~ yesh. Somehow my tofu/soymilk health food & exercise loving self got cancer. The experience is just weird. Never cried about it either, it's all too weird. So I figure it's gotta be God's will so I'll go w/the flow & trust in his love.

My treatments started in August. Had a cancerous tumor lasered off on my tongue & a radical neck disscetion. Both left & right lymphs were cancerous. The remaining mini nodes some cancerous some not. Followed up w/Rad & Chemo. Radition was completed on Dec 2. Only just now the mucus is subsiding - but I still can't quite eat just yet.

This board helped me feel not alone & given the determination to survive. Thanx guys.


Dig.7/03 3cm+ lymph nodes & base of tongue tumor. Radical neck dissection w/removal of one neck muscle, laser removal of tumor. 47 sessions of radiation, 2 doses of Cisplatin & PEG tube 40yrs old non-smoker/drinker