Oh gosh fingers crossed that no radiation and/or chemo!!!! So glad to hear that things are moving along without any sort of complications.

I don't know much about the no alcohol rule. I know that as a general rule it's just 'not recommended' but there may be more to it with the cancer being a HPV positive cancer? I'm not really sure, maybe someone else will chime in here that has a better guess.

Laura Age 40
Tongue lesion on left side grew and was hurting in mid-August
Dx as squamous cell carcinoma on 9.18.18
Left Neck Dissection and tongue surgery, lost a fourth of my tongue on 10.1.18, tumor had grown to a T3
Margins were clear except front section of tongue margin had three stray cancer cells that were not in the tumor
Additional surgery 10.18.18 to remove another cm near where the stray cells were found
33 radiation treatments from Nov 2018 through Jan 2019