Do the visual on this... they cut you inside your mouth. Now I am not sure how extensive your surgery was or your surgeons route, but I know that with my neck dissection (had 40 nodes removed) I have stitches/scar tissue from the backend of my oral tongue in my mouth - down the left side of my throat - INSIDE as well as the usual visual scar on the outside. It's hard to describe but they literally cut through my neck outside to inside - I could feel it tightening during rads so I asked if I had been stitched there. They also removed the floor of my mouth on the cancerous side below where the tumor grew on my tongue, and reconstructed the whole thing - FUN RIGHT? Anyway - Because of this I am numb for the most part on the operative side (sensitivity does return eventually just not completely - it feels like a bee sting if I accidentally bite my tongue at this point) - so I tend to favor my other side - to chew and swallow. Fortunately the swallowing is okay but the mechanics of it are a little off so if I take in a lot of thin fluids I think (because I am rewired) they sometimes get into my ear canal which actually connects to your throat area (look at a diagram of the human head) This doesn't happen all the time but occasionally when it does I get an earache.



have a good day.