Christine,

I've got lots of things that are easy to eat. It's all those crispy & chewy things that sound so good and I miss so much. smile I only get to smell them now when my friends & family are eating them. If I get my teeth, well that's one more challenge met. Then Pizza, french fries, toasted Italian subs...........here I come! I'll deal with the dryness thing one way or the other, and that "shelf" in my throat, etc. At least I've gotten my tongue-stub pretty well tamed.

When I talked to my Mom about someday having the surgery so I can get teeth, she said that after so much time, it will feel like I've got a house and lot in my mouth! smile That was a year ago, right before she passed away. She had a great, sort of wry, sense of humor, God love her.

Lani

SCC part glossectomy 3/06, recur 8/06 glossectomy, floor of mouth, part of jaw removed, RT/chemo thru 10/12/06, PET clear 7/08
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn"
Passed away 12/14/08