Unfortunately the members of the forum would not be able to answer your question. Everyone tolerates pain on different levels. Maybe he has thrush???? That hurts like heck and would make talking difficult too. Not every person who has cancer is in pain. Many base of tongue cancers go misdiagnosed or completely missed due to lack of pain. Trying to help someone long distance is not going to be very easy and will be very stressful trying to get info.

I suggest you contact people who can check on him face to face and have them report back to you. If you father has had a biopsy with a cancer diagnosis then he will need support to get thru the treatments. He may need a major surgery to remove the tumor or weeks of radiation which has its own set of complications. All this is guessing as I have no info to go by. One thing I do know for certain is that he will need help. If you cant be there can you find someone or even hire someone to help him over the next few months?

Best wishes!




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