Since the last post, another tumor grew very aggressively in almost the same spot as the one that was removed on April 10th. It grew insanely fast.

Luckily? It wasn’t attached to any important structures, just in the tissue and outside of my throat.

I had it removed this morning, and was home by 1pm! Thought it would require a “couple stitches and a band-aid” .
It’s glue and full visual effect, I can be an extra on a true crime show. I was told not to look up, so as not to pop the seam, makes me wish they had skipped the neck lift last year. Left me some neck skin to work with, but, vanity.

Upside, it’s gone now, we’ll have to see with imaging if it’s gone for good.
Yes, I’m making a bit of fun of myself, because I’m not gonna cry about it!

I got home had the coffee I missed at 3am before the 2 hour drive to Orlando and some lunch in the blender. Feeling human again.


1st time around was 2010, Sqamous Cell Carcinoma. Radiation, chemo, surgery: Radical neck dissection.
Cancer free until 2021.
This time around, started 2021, tumors on tongue.
May 2021 partial glossectomy, October ‘21 removal of a few more recurring on tongue.
February til May 2022 immunotherapy....no improvement
July 2022, total glossectomy, living the new normal.
PET February’23 another SCC on neck....next surgery April ‘23, see where it goes from here.
Still fighting.