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Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 42 | Thank you so much for your replies. This puts me at ease that I am following the doctor's orders properly and am healing just fine. The reaction of my doctor at my 2 week check-up made me feel like the swelling should have gone away a long time ago.
My doctor had expected me to have trouble with lifting my right arm, but luckily he was able to avoid the nerve enough to where it didn't effect my movement. During recovery I lost a lot of muscle mass and my job is quite physical - so I have started to do my physical training to re-build some of my smaller muscles to prevent injury when I am completely back full-time.
Female, Age 38, healthy non-smoker, rarely drank, regularly workout
May 2014 noticed irritation on tongue
6/18 saw doctor
6/25 saw ENT specialist got biopsy
6/30 Dx HPV P16+ ve SCC tongue cancer
7/9 CT scans, no visible spread
8/20 partial glossectomy with radial forearm flap, neck dissection 26 nodes sampled - results T2 N0 with mild dysplasia
4/2015 start to have ear pain
5/2015 recurrence
6/4/2015 surgery 29 nodes samples pN 2c
7/13/2015 7 wks of Chemo & Radiation start
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