Hello everybody here!
I wish all the best for you all brave cancer survivors.
I am diagnosed with stage II SCC of tongue May 2022. operated on the same month. I underwent a subtotal glossectomy, all neck lymph nodes dissected, and a tongue reconstruction was done with a flap from my breast.
the post operative phase went fine, NGT tube removed after 45 days and I started taking oral fluid diet.
After two months I received 30 sessions of radiation.
My suffering starts when I discovered that there is a defect beneath the tongue where food particles went and lodged there. It is very annoying and painful, I try my best to clean this pocket, but still some tiny particles stay there.
After radiation therapy I developed a mild neck lymphedema, but now I am fine, it is not progressing (Thank Allah).
The first MR image seems to be assuring.
Three weeks ago, I did A PET Scan, and it shows a cyst on the left Jaw, and two small lung nodules.
We are seeking different Professional opinions since some regard these nodules as suspicious, and others think they might not be that bad, and advised us to wait for a while and repeat the PET Scan.
We are waiting the opinion of the oncologist.