Thank you everyone for well wishes, thoughts and prayers.

Wendy- My tongue showed signs of irritation on the left. The irritation got worse as months went by. Then it started to hurt and eventually affected my eating and speech due to pain. I wasn't regularly seeing an ENTat that time because I was into my 6th year. So when it started to hurt and not really heal or get better, I went to see my ENT. He did a biopsy on Friday and I got my results the following Tuesday showing it was cancer. My ENT was quite surprised I had a recurrence and even visually he said 50/50 it could be cancer. Of course to be safe, he did a biopsy right there and then.

I thought the irritation was from chewing on the left side all the time.

Age 44. Diagnosed at 34 (2006) with T1N0 SCC tongue on right side. Neck dissed & 6 weeks Radiation. 30% tongue removed. Never smoked;
2nd recurrence 1/2013 on left side. Surgery to remove 2/2013 forearm flap/neck dissec T1N0; brachytherapy 4/2013;
3rd recurrence 11/2015 mandibulectomy for jaw bone cancer Stage IV/no lymph node involvement