 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Starting to realize that I was "fortunate" enough to have symmetrical XRT so my face is the same on both sides re: hair!
I once fell in a consruction accident and broke one side of my face -- That side swelled up incredibly, sticking out inches from below my eye, and then turned all sorts of wierd colors.
I had to sit in the hospital for a couple of days, waiting for the swelling to go down, after which they operated and then it swelled up again. Rude looky-lous walking by the room would stare in and see the normal side of my face, so I would quickly turn so they were also seeing the really unusual, very ugly and distorted side -- It was a real hoot to watch them rapidly turn away, having seen a lot more than they bargained for!
You take your amusement where you find it <grinz>.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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