Dear Eilene,
I never went to the support group at Penn, because of the time too. Who is your doc at Penn? I see Dr. Chalian. I was diagnosed in Oct. 2002 and I also had a neck disection. I wasn't staged but I had 30 percent of my tongue removed. Oral Cancer was not found in my lymp nodes instead I was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer Stage 4 and then I had a total thyroidectomy in January 2003. What brought you to Penn? Do you live near the Jersey Shore. It is quite a distance. I live about a half hour from Penn when there is little traffic.
please write back.
Rosalie