Hi everyone! First off tks for all the posts I have read over the last few months on multiple subjects. Invaluable and uplifting! Now I am a member I would like to pick the brain of those who have had a very similar journey to mine. Hopefully my signature appears below and fills in those details.

Specifically I wonder about the stiffness and flexibility of my recently chopped up and cooked neck and tongue. Sure I am only a few wks out of treatment just curious how others have fared and what worked for them (I am starting weekly PT soon). And then there's the spit,...the endless fizzy, toxic spit. I know it will ease, just not soon enough. Timeline and tricks to employ there plse. Finally the precious PEG: I have just begun limited soft food swallowing and wonder what others have experienced re removal. I know everyone heals at different rates, just looking for some true accounts.

Tks again everyone, great site!


42yr male, Dx jan2013 SCC left tongue stage 3, half glossectomy w/thigh tissue flap and left neck dissection jan/feb, 35 IMRT and 3 cisplatin apr/may, PEG in late March/out early June, pneumonia twice since tx began. No tobacco, HPV-. Now have painful Lymphedema in face/neck...keeping my chins up!