Just want to chime in and say we are close in age, and I also homeschool my two kids, 11 and 8. My summer took a wild left turn with tongue cancer. Just in case we do radiation, I have been planning a low-key school year. It is amazing how much they can learn even when my health causes me to slack off. (I have an anxiety disorder and migraines and stuff.) I hope you feel better soon, hang in there and keep asking till you get answers.

Surgery 5/31/13
Tongue lesion, right side
SCC, HPV+, poorly differentiated
T1N0 based on biopsy and scan
Selective neck dissection 8/27/13, clear nodes
12/2/13 follow-up with concerns
12/3/13 biopsy, surgery, cancer returned
1/8/14 Port installed
PEG installed
Chemo and rads
2/14/14 halfway through carboplatin/taxotere and rads
March '14, Tx done, port out w/ complications, PEG out in June
2017: probable trigeminal neuralgia
Fall 2017: HBOT
Jan 18: oral surgery