The Birch Show.

I'm going to issue a potential mascara alert here.

Maybe not for you guys that are listening to in your car, but probably for Kristen,

because she cries over everything.

I am not going to apologize for having emotional depth.

And Cassie would for sure be crying, but she's not here today.

She's at a convention.

So let's turn it on over to Rebecca, because things need to be celebrated. And I will be upset if no one in here today. She's at a convention. So let's turn it on over to Rebecca because things need to be

celebrated. And I will be upset if no one in here cries. I'm going to be looking at all of you.

Okay. I'll mace myself. Make me ruin my spray tan. No, no, no, no. Yeah, I wrote something down.

Of course I did because I am just always, I've always been a better writer than I

have been a yapper. So if you would just, um, press statement. Yeah. Exactly. So I was diagnosed with

tongue cancer in October of 2023, which led me down a very difficult and painful battle that included surgery to my tongue,

resecting one fourth of it and reconstructing it with tissue from my arm, surgery on my neck,

radiation to my mouth and neck and chemo. Something I very briefly mentioned before is that when I

had my first scan after all that treatment,

it did not go well. I had something rare happen, which was an immediate recurrence. And I was

wheeled back into surgery for a second neck dissection to hopefully finally be rid of cancer for good,

which is why now it looks like someone tried to decapitate me but didn't finish the job.

So I have come on air before and I have shared when I received clear scans.

And very, very recently, I had another scan.

This one felt very big because it was a scan that would put me at more than a year of clear scans if it came back good.

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