Laura

my thoughts and prayers are with you and your father, my husband had a similar operation- upper jaw and palate, flap and bone taken from the forearm. He was in surgery for 19 hours and I will never forget how desperate I felt. However, although he looked pretty awful the first few days, very swollen, the body is amazing at healing and he was out of hospital in three weeks.

take care

Kate
Kate

Husband dx'd 18/07/07...Maxillectomy, palatectomy, neck dissection 30/8/07....clear margins, nodes dx'd 12/9/07 in the middle of radiotherapy and struggling.