Dan's voice is different, some raspy. He has more trouble having to think thru words or repeat because he has trouble with some letters, especiallly b's and d's. His orginally came from the tongue surgery, but was so much better. Then after his voice came back weeks after radiation he feels like it's the same problem as right after tongue surgery. He had very heavy rad to 4 sites and chemo...might be why the trouble with some syllables came back. Hopefully, with time it will get better. Sometimes it sounds like he has a bad head cold...just varies.
Take care,
Debbie


Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.