Hi Lyn! Welcome to OCF!

Glad you have found this site to help get you thru your upcoming treatments. Feel free to ask questions and research as you have been doing. There is also tons of important info on the main OCF pages. Nutrition will be the key to getting thru this easier. Eat everything you can now as your sense of taste and swallow will be 'off' temporarily for a while.

Best wishes!!!!

PS... If you are anywhere near Andover NJ on Sat, the 22nd there is the 5th Annual OCF walk. Its to honor David Nastro who sadly lost his battle with oral cancer. I always attend (except the year I was in the hospital) along with several other survivors and caregivers (last count was around 12 OCF members). Survivors are free but you would need to register online ASAP in order to get a tshirt.

Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile