OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2019 Posts: 57 | That’s encouraging Paul, thanks. I can’t wait to chew and taste foods again. Will try not to take those pleasures for granted again. In addition to the tasting of food, the social isolation is also kind of depressing. Most of my social interaction with friends came from food and sports (golf and tennis). None of those three are working very well at the moment.
Preliminary diagnosis of SqCC at base of tongue August 2, 2019.
Biopsy surgery on August 15
Confirmed sqcc from biopsy Aug 20 - hpv type 16
33 radiation treatments ended October 25, 2019.
3 (large dose) cisplatin treatments.
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