I spent 14 days in hospital in early June following 17 hrs of surgery for a stage 3 SCC of my lower jaw. Jaw resection, fibula removed from left leg for donor bone, free flap from left forearm to rebuild my mouth, skin grafts from my thigh to fill in the hole in my arm. All nodes clear (56 total) margins good, but they're doing 33 treatments over 6 weeks as a precaution.

I suffered a great deal post surgery both physically and emotionally, and I really don't know how I will make it through the radiation. It scares me worse than the surgery did, and that's saying a lot.

I know a lot of it is fear of the unknown, but I don't know how much more of this I can handle emotionally
Wayne