The port is getting better every day. I'd say in a couple of weeks, it will feel like a part of me. I know it will be worth it. Knowing how my veins are, I'm the one who actually requested it. I don't want the toxic chemo drugs leaking out of the veins and into the surrounding tissues. We have enough to deal with during treatment.

Thank you, Sally smile.

37 y/o fem at Dx (23 wks preg @ dx on 3/16/11)
SCC L oral tongue (no risk factors)
L partial gloss/MND 3/28/11 @ 25 wks preg
T1-2N0M0; no rads/chemo
Tonsillectomy on 8/6/12 +SCC L tonsil T2-3N1M0 (HPV-)
Treated with 35 rads/7 carbo & taxol (Rx ended 10/31/12), but many hospitalizations d/t complications from rx.
Various scans since rx ended are NED!
Part of genetic study for rare cancers @ MGH.
44 years old now...I wasn't sure I would make it! Hoping for 40 more!