So on Tues we met the plastic surgeon, she was very nice BTW, and mentioned they would be taking half the tongue ( on LHS. We were quite taken aback by this as you can imagine

Because of this skin and blood vessels taken from left lower arm to replaced the part of the tongue removed and a further graft from belly to replace the lower arm so three wound areas
Hearing this my wife was very upset aa you can appreciate as this was only our second meeting with the doctors/ official.

On Thursday, yesterday, we were in the hospital meeting various support staff/ team members such as speech & language, physio, dietitian etc - was quite overwhelming the info bout recovery ( swallowing , soft food diets, what to expect when she wakes up)

Finally on Thursday afternoon had second and final meeting with the surgeon who will work on removing the cancerous section of tongue - at the first meeting he mentioned it was stage one but yesterday said he couldn’t say for certain until a post operative biopsy is carried out and results of this will determine post operative care if needed

The liaison nurse was very good and very positive saying my wife should recover well but we understand this is a major operation

Date for surgery Mon 14th Nov