Great news Dianne,
Like you I was also relieved to not need radiation even though at that stage I was not sure what it entailed.
After finding this site a year later I now realise how lucky I also was.
Good to hear you are healing well and are in a better frame of mind now that the worst is behind you....keep it up smirk
Gabriele

History Leukoplakia bx 8/2006 SCC floor mouth T3N0M0- Verrucous Carcinoma.
14 hour 0p SCC-Right ND/excision/marginal mandibulectomy 9/2006, 4 teeth removed, flap from wrist, trach-ng 6 days- no chemo/rad.
6 ops and debulking (flap/tongue join) + bx's 2006-2012.
bx Jan 2012 Hyperkeratosis-Epithelial Dysplasia
24cm GIST tumour removed 8/2013. Indefinite Oral Chemo.

1/31/16 passed away peacefully surrounded by family