Can you believe it's been almost 3 weeks and we still do not have the results of Mom's CT scan?! When we call the doc's office we are repeatedly told that he will call us back after he has had a chance to look at the scan. My husband, who is a dentist, finally called and after being put on hold for 20 minutes was told that the doctor has been out of the country since Thanksgiving and won't return until December 27th! The nurse said the scan looked "suspicious" so they would probably order an MRI, and she would call my husband back the next day. She nor anyone else at the office has called back.

In the meantime, Mom has developed a really bad infection so we took her to her primary care doc and he got her in to see a new cancer doc. Our anger and frustration regarding the lack of care she has received from the USC Head and Neck surgeons is the topic of a whole new post.

My question here is that the graft site on her lower leg is getting very red, even dark purple near the ankle and she says it is very painful. Any ideas on what is happening there? The site is still healing (5 months after the surgery) but was looking better until a few weeks ago, coincidenatlly about the same time her jaw and neck flared up again.