Hi all. New here. Just had surgery last week. Because they took just less than 30% of left side of my tongue for SCC, about 15% of entire tongue) they decided to use a full skin graft from my shoulder instead of a tissue rebuild. Going in, the oncologist ENT thought he would need to take 50% of the left side. Anyway, I have been doing very well but the graft has not. I came home from the hospital Monday with bits of the graft already in trouble. Today the front stitches on the top came out. The weight then pulled the others. Now it's only attached at the bottom. We called the plastic surgeon and he says this happens sometimes and we will just wait for the other stitches to dissolve enough to let loose! Really?? I don't see him or the oncologist until Monday. No fever, swelling, redness - in fact the tongue tissue looks very good. Albeit I have a very funky contour. Very pitted. So three questions. Has this happened to anyone here? If so, did you get more surgery to try to ease the contour? If not, was your speech and or chewing affected? I'm actually talking ok. With an impediment but understandable. I assume I can train it as I heal. I really don't think I want additional surgery on it unless they feel it needs to be done for hygienic reasons. I won't find out the pathology of the many lymph nodes they took until next Monday. None lit up on the PET scan but because some were enlarged they were concerned about microscopic SCC.