Well, the last couple of days I've managed to do some superior eating! Yesterday: a poached egg, banana, French Onion soup, baked squash with butter and maple syrup, today: dinner at my sister's of avocado soup and spinach/feta quiche with a little morsel of apple pie for dessert. And yes, I could taste all of it, especially the maple syrup. Still eating very small portions, but my stomach is being much more cooperative.

The challenge continues to be my sore tongue and I'm starting to get a little bit alarmed about a spot on the right side that really stings, especially by the end of the day. I have an appointment with my wonderful Nurse Practitioner on Tuesday and I'll have him take a look and in the meantime, I'm going to stop imagining the worst. I mean, there's no way this little spot is a new tumor, right? Its just a really stubborn bit of mucositis, right??

Ugh.

Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018