Hello all,

My name is Jen and I have recently been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma on my tongue. I thought it was a canker sore but it didn’t go away and just got bigger I noticed it around the first of April and I went to a doctor, dentist and finally an ENT who took the initial biopsy and told me it was cancer. He’s referring me to a surgeon at U of M hospital I know surgery is in my future it’s scheduled for June 20th idk what the follow up treatment will be or even how extensive the surgery will be as they took a second biopsy at my consultation appointment.

I am so scared. I’ve never had any health problems like this I’m 35 and I have 2 young kids I feel so overwhelmed I go from fine to tears in minutes. I just don’t know how to handle all this, I never saw it coming.

Any hope or encouragement would be greatly appreciated
-jen