Ankur,

Best of luck to you! You will go through this with a breeze! I would definitely suggest them doing a neck dissection since they will be working in that area anyway. I am 8days out of surgery and have been home the last couple of days. I will mention that I haven't had any pain medication in the last three days and really isn't any pain involved. When you come to just focus on relaxing since your tongue will be swollen. The trach and me didn't get along very well, but I won!!! You will have your taste buds so start thinking of things that you like to slurp down for the first few days. I'm not much of a sweet tooth person so I went for the yogurts blended with fresh fruits. Black beans, cilantro,tomotes,lime juice all blended also does the trick. Look for calories though. I weighed myself today and have lost ten pounds! I'll give you my phrase to use..."YOU GOT THIS"!!!