Congrats on recovery so far. Similar situation here. My wife graduated with a "speech and language pathology" degree one week before my partial glos. She was always bragging that she would put me on her resume with my quick recovery time. Luckily I kind of enjoy showing off my scars and half new tongue off to her classmates. Still can't quite get the taste of sweet right, but sour is just now starting to come back, which is awesome. Cheesecake tasting more like sour cream than cheesecake definitely took some getting used to. It's weird to say, and treatment me would probably vehemently disagree, but I can't help but feel I had a relatively easy time of it. Anyways, just now starting to look for ways to help others through it. Having your clinical perspective I'm sure will help. It's amazing to think about the curveballs that life throws at us. Here's hoping to continued recovery for all of us.
Dan
Stage 4 SCC on right underside of tongue
DX on 7/19/13 at age 29, no tobacco, light drinking
Partial Glossectomy/reconstruction/neck disection 8/20/13 Temp Trach, PEG tube
4/59 lymph nodes cancerous, 1 with extracapsular extension
Chemo - Cisplatin - 3 treatments started on 10/01/13 Radiation - 33 treatments started on 10/02/13
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