Hi...just wanted to let you know that you are NOT alone. I had a partial glossectomy in '03...clear margins, radiation to my neck just to make sure. I still felt things weren't right and finally, after pressing my docs, had a biopsy in Dec of '04...recurrence in the same spot, hemiglossectomy, no other treatment since all margins were clear (this second cancer was so "new" it didn't show up on an MRI and the tumor board at Stanford U in CA said, cut it out, it'll be fine). Spring of '07, recurrence, this time in neck...radical dissection, trouble eating, swallowing, radiation which fried me...and now, 8 months after surgery, cancer is back. Radiation didn't get it and now, the docs say there is nothing else that can be done...the best thing that has happened is that I've gotten pain meds and an antidepressant and a tranquilizer...I'm spaced out, but no longer sitting around crying all the time...write back...I want you to know I'm here for as long as I can be and am always willing to listen...it helps to know you're not alone...this is such an uncommon (it seems) type of cancer and has effects that are so unique and unless someone has gone through it (or been a caretaker of one going through it), it's incomprehensible.