Hi Gino

I know I'm a little late to this thread, but wanted to add a couple of hopefully encouraging thoughts. I had pretty much the same deal as you did, SCC tongue and mets to nodes, except I was more stage 3 something, my case it was prett clear that rad/chemo was in order and even then tops 60 percent chance of surviving..

Glossectomy, neck dissection, rad/chemo, first time around when they radiated my tongue was the worse, did wind up being fed by IV for a week (no PEG) and felt bad for a few weeks later, but the tongue healed up after a couple of weeks, didn't loose any teeth, the taste came back after a bit and even though had reduced saliva still managed.. Then had recurrance on opposite side, more rad/chemo, and thanks to IMRT that session wasn't as bad, probalby could have worked until about 3/4 the way through, but had to go out of town for treatments and was only home on weekends. 3 years out, have enough saliva to get through, still all the teeth, hopefully no cancer, and can eat Thai, Indian etc spicy food.

Not a lot of fun for about 5 weeks, but if done properly will help to be sure you're around a bunch more years.

Let us know what you decided.
Bob