Hi my name is Mark Cohen and I had lymph and and base of tongue cancer surgery at UCLA last week. Clear margins they said! I am 1 week out of surgery and outside writing this post! I will not know the pathology until this Thursday. Hope it is HPV? My question to my friends out there is HOW to eat after this surgery? I am struggling with most food! I am determined not to give in to this cancer! Cold and hot seem to affect the foods as well? I imagine I have lost 12 pounds! I'm basically living on cocunut water for electrolytes. Aside from the eating, I got tongue Candida and still "need" to finish 2 more days of "prophylactic" Keflex; do I really need to push the 2 days of Keflex? Thank you Angels!