I got to see Jennifer on Saturday a couple of times. In the morning she was getting ready to do a swallow test and by the evening she had moved down to a smaller trachea tube, was able to talk some and had eaten some thickened soup. I just found out that they have removed the trachea tube & the stitches. Her lymph node pathology came back good! Woohoo! And she is coming home tomorrow, Monday.


Jennifer
Stage II (T2N0M0) SCC diag 4/21/05; partial glossectomy & selective neck dissection (good margins and lymyph nodes negative), jaw split, 1/3 of tongue removed, free flap from left forearm - 5/23/05; 42 years old at diagnosis