FWIW, there must be other ways of passing this virus because mine is the HPV, I only had one boyfriend before my husband, and oral sex was NEVER part of the picture. My doctors are baffled. This is just to say. . . There is so much we don't know that fretting is pointless. I still wrack my brain to see if there was some vector of transmission I have overlooked, and I still come up blank.

Hope your treatment goes well and you can move past this misery!


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