Has anyone had a significant part of their tongue removed, and had plastic surgery to reconstruct the tongue? My sister and I are wondering if the tongue can function to move food around and for speech purposes after such a procedure. She has such difficulty with extreme sensitivity, no taste, and how long it takes to eat as it is (about a third of her tongue was removed in the last surgery) and now the doc says they need to remove more of the tongue. Would love to hear from anyone who has any similar experience....