ShrmHntr, so sorry to hear you're a cancer survivor, too. I didn't realize that. I have a sister who has a very advanced case of ovarian cancer, but she fortunately got half her life before she was diagnosed at 47. She's 51 now.

Do you mind my asking if you'd been a cigarette smoker or oral tobacco user before you were diagnosed? If not, do they have a guess why you got an oral cancer at such a young age?

The disease has a way of reorganizing your priorities real fast, doens't it? Seeing it at such close range in my sister, who lives with us, has taught me a lot about going for what I want in life. Also about loving more and criticizing less. About so many things, really.