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Actually, it has become a nightmare now. We were good together, he and I. We had fun. We loved each other. We laughed. We did things together, but could be separate as well. My younger daughter had her daughter, so now I had 2 grand daughters. His son had a daughter. Then, a small spot appeared on his tongue that wasn't there before. He had a biopsy that came back negative. Great! We went away for a weekend and it flared up. It sent shooting pains up his neck and into his ear. He went back to the surgeon and he took a larger sample. In the meantime he was on antibiotics, which took care of the pain and inflammation. We were in Vegas when he called about the "big C". He had squamicell cancer of the tongue. We wondered where that came from as he never smoked or chewed. He was referred to an ENT who told us that it could be the human papiloma virus, or the extensive dental work he had when he was younger that caused it. Could also be from drinking, but he wasn't an alcoholic or anything. He had him in the hospital that early July and took a portion of his tongue, and 40 lymph nodes in his neck. He did not expect this would come back. He had 6 weeks of radiation. The chemo doctor did not think he needed that, just radiation would do. He did that, and it was aimed at the neck and mouth area. He lost his taste, and he had burns all over the inside of his mouth and on his tongue. After that was all over and he had healed, we breathed a sigh of relief. It was over. We could go on with our lives once more. But then in January, 2008, he started having pains in his ear again. We went back to the ENT and he sent him for scans. Hold your breath....it was back.