Hi Everyone,
While I was driving to Maine about 8 weeks ago, I non-stop ate a candy called Hersey's Hugs. I'm not the best long distance driver in the world and always need something to keep me alert, this was my choice for this trip. I don't chew these candies, I suck on them until they melt. At the end of the trip I noticed that under my tongue and along the side of it were sore, the side where I had my jaw surgery and have no bottom teeth. Under my tongue I noticed what looked like a cut or a split and it was red. I can't really call it a sore. I went to the doctor about three weeks after this cut came about, he wasn't concerned with it. It's very small, is smaller in the morning. It's as if during the night when I am sleeping and my tongue is still it trys to heal, then I open it up again during the day. It's as if it's trying to granulate and heal from the inside out. Am I making any sense here, it's hard to describe it. Has anyone ever had anything like this??
Minnie

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.