I jumped at the priest's offer to annoint me with "Last Rites" AFTER the surgery (hemi glosectomy, mandibulotomy, left neck dissection and forearm freeflap ) but he did not laugh at my joke that giving up my tongue for Lent should get me years off Purgatory.
Now I have had all the Catholic sacraments except for ordination as a priest. so there is an upside to Cancer recurrence. Just got out of ICU a few hours ago
thanks to all the posters who answered my 10 day hospital thread plus I knew enough to have my first cans of Jevity done as gravity feed rather than forced thru NSG with plunger, So far speech therapist and ENT think good chance of my remaining part of the "final five" OCF posters who did radiation, chemo and now surgery without a PEG The next 5 days in hopital will tell, just got access code for hospital wifi,so will post more later.