Hi Dizz.
I’m doing Ok. Had some swelling under my jaw both sides and left side of neck under ear where I can feel swollen lymph nodes. Had surgery on 22 July and have 2 more weeks before my 6 week check up and really don’t want to pester the surgeon as I’ve already called him twice and had to go see him cause a wound was draining yellow exudate where a suture was coming through and rubbing the floor of my mouth whereI didn’t want to talk or eat. There was no infection and he just had to cut the suture which gave me some relief until a 1/2 inch thread finally came out of the wound and it closed. Been having intermittent numbness of left cheek and left side of my mouth also. Really don’t know if I should wait the 2 weeks since there’s no tenderness or redness in the neck and the sensation is coming back slowly in the tongue which maybe the cause of the intermittent numbness in the cheek and mouth. I hate playing doctor so I can spare them from something that maybe completely normal for this Partial Glossectomy. Then again it could be an ominous sign of recurrence in the lymph nodes already. They should have a walk in Office with a nurse practitioner to evaluate these kind of things so you don’t have to pester the surgeons. I know their overwhelmed at times.