Brian, I would like to think so but I was disappointed in my last visit to learn that if the flap heals as the PS hopes, there will be no more surgery for me. I can't imagine that my neck could stay this way. The separation of skin is very wide and appears to be getting wider as the skin folds outward. If it were to catch on anything it would surely rip. Not pretty! If they have an informed plan, they have yet to share it with me.


Pat - 62 yr. old -DX 8/29/09 SCC stage III floor of mouth
Lower teeth& bone removed
Port& Peg
Cisplatin x3; Rad 35 - ended 12/21/09
Fox Chase 2nd opinion-mandibulectomy; tracheotomy; left neck dissection; jaw reconstruction 5/13/10; flap failed;new flap 7/13/10; lipo January 2011