I found it to be a long, sometimes frustrating, process when I tried to get back to the kind of singing I used to do (I was a first soprano in various choirs and small singing groups). Most of the difficulty was because of dry mouth problems. However, I've seen some real progress in the past few years as I've gotten better control over dry mouth with a combination of Salagen, Biotene and the ever-reliable water bottle. Between that and being in a group that does some fairly rigorous warm-up exercises before singing, I'm almost back to the range I used to have. (I discovered that on a good day I can make it to a high C!) I just have to focus more on enunciation because of my lopsided tongue.

Cathy


Tongue SCC (T2M0N0), poorly differentiated, diagnosed 3/89, partial glossectomy and neck dissection 4/89, radiation from early June to late August 1989