Geez... stick your tongue out and wag it around... you survived... color is unimportant... mine is whiter as well... I'm not embarrassed about it - if someone ever asks me I take the opportunity to educate (no one ever has). The one thing I wouldn't like, is if it were hairy. Which thankfully it's not. I know a few people who have to deal with that after treatment is over and it doesn't sound like fun.. My donor site was the inside of my wrist... No hair there thankfully. But I know some people - men in particular - who've had their leg as a donor site... and yup... they have hair on their tongue... ;o)