 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | I have not seen any other member go thru as much as your husband and survive. He is very fortunate!
My situation was very serious with several complications but it was not even close to the extend of what your husband went thru. I have had a mandibulectomy which removed half of my lower jaw. After one year I was allowed to have some reconstructive surgeries done. I found the reconstructive surgeries to be much easier to go thru than the original mandibulectomy. The first reconstructive surgery was done as a starting point, I had a second surgery a few months later. My physician wanted me to do more surgeries but I refused. I found each one more difficult than the last to recover from. It took many months of IV antibiotics 3x daily and weeks of hyperbaric oxygen treatments to recover from the original mandibulectomies.
I would think your husbands physicians will do the reconstructive surgery in several steps. It wont be easy but he has had 2 years to heel from his original treatments which will make him stronger so he should handle this easier.
Wishing you and your husband all the very best with everything!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
