Thanks everyone for the welcome and support. I feel like I have found my peeps!

I know I sound impatient, but my tongue is still so swollen, it sticks out almost two inches. Obviously I am not eating food yet and my only means of communication is by typing notes on my phone. This is fine, except that my two youngest don't read yet...it has been very difficult on all of us, with Mommy not being able to talk. This is my third week home from the hospital and my little one is just now willing to be close to me.

I will be doing radiation. I have my next appointment with the tumor board next week to decide my course of treatment. I am nervous about radiation but I know that it is a necessary part of this journey.

I guess I'm still reeling at the speed in which my life changed...one day I was my normal, loud, crazy busy self, running from home to work to kid activities, cooking up a storm and seemingly overnight I became this silent shadow of my former self. I have felt a little lost these last few weeks...and patience has never been my virtue, so waiting out this time for the swelling to go down in my tongue is torture!

Thanks for listening!
Gayle