Thanks for your encouragement and tips. If you learn one thing when dealing with the big C it is patience. I am still learning. I will be patient with myself and keep trying different things. I can do yogurt and very thin oatmeal, but with my new tongue it is hard to get things going in the right direction at times. It is good to have those who have passed on this road to give us new ones advise.

SCC of tongue removed 3/07 mod. left neck dissection. Tumor reappeared 6/07. Removed 8/07, right neck dissection, free flap from wrist for tongue graph. Radiation 30 (IMRT), chemo cisplatin 4 rounds finished 11/07.