Just checking in finally to say that I am still alive. I have my blog updated for the most part if you all want to get caught up from there. I've been home from the hospital for two weeks now and hopefully I'm done with surgeries for a while! I'm slowly working back to eating solid foods and ate some toast and part of an egg tonight - it almost didn't settle but it stayed down, which is a big improvement for me! I still have a stomach drain tube in my stomach and a feeding tube in my small intestines but hopefully I can recover fast so I don't have to keep them for long! Anyway, catch up with the blog and thanks for all the concern!


Stephanie, 23, SCC on the right side of my tongue, surgery on 5-19-08, over half my tongue removed, free flap constructed from my forearm, bilateral neck dissection, one positive node. Radiation (32) and chemo (carboplatin) started on 6-16-08. Recurrence 4/09 in lungs.

**** Stephanie passed away 12.15.09.... RIP our dear friend****