Welcome to the club. Membership dues(aka cancer) are a bitch, but you would be hard pressed to find a more supportive and caring group. You can see in my signature that I shared a similar diagnosis. I know how overwhelming this all can be. It is a very scary and disheartening time, especially having to wait for treatment. While I can definitely understand the sentiment of saying this is the worst thing ever, I can tell you from experience that that viewpoint will very likely change. I started off with the same mindset. Cancer of the oral tongue is very treatable, though, with most patients getting a very good prognosis. By no means will it be easy. In fact it just plain sucks. The big eye opener for me, however, was while I was going through chemo with people who don't have a set number of treatments to get through. They keep going just to keep tumors from growing with very little hope of the cancer actually going away. All cancer is terrible, but I count myself lucky on how treatable mine was. You seem to have a great attitude going into this. That attitude and a good support system go a long way. There are plenty of people here willing to answer any questions you have throughout this hard journey so don't hesitate to ask about anything.