Tongue cut out - with images
Blog of a cancer victim with tongue removed
Comments:
"I've read about your concern with your partner's situation. I'm really sorry about the situation you are forced to be in. I can surely understand the anxiety in facing the future being tongueless. If it makes you feel better, I had a total glossectomy myself in 2008. Life has been tough but manageable. You just adjust to your new life without tongue. I have a slurring speech but understandable especially to your closed ones and a lot of time even strangers. However, nowadays, I can manage phone conversations as well and its difficult sometimes.
Drinking, I can drink but it has to be done very slowly to prevent choking. I take most of my food through a PEG tube. I've been on the tube since March last year. You just have to keep positive and think of other ways in looking at life. I mean, there a lot more other things in life besides eating and drinking. For me now, its eat to live and not live to eat."http://rdoc.org.uk/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/46510549/m/303301373
The main concern about or response to violent tongue removal seems to be the excessive bloodloss that follows. Consider the idea that immediately after Warrington's tongue is cut out the stump might have been cauterized in order to keep him alive.
There is no definitive consensus on whether or not a person can speak after losing their tongue. It may depend on how much of the muscle was cut out, the amount of bloodloss and infection, and the personal determination of the individual. The person's ability to make sound of some kind does not seem to be in question, but actual speech (at some level of clarity) could be a matter of time and healing as well as several other mitigating factors.
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| Medical illustration of tongue removed |
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| Sorry. Bad joke. |
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