Hi everyone,
I'm sitting in a motel room in Baltimore right now, have an appt. with my ENT in the morning at 11am. I saw him last week, the 19th, and he said everything looked great. But, Christmas Eve I started having a headache and my jaw and chin swelled up double in size and were bright red. Christmas Day went to ER and had a CAT scan, told it was cellulitis. Had IV antibiotics and they sent me home. When we called to let my doc at Hopkins know what was going on, he insisted I come see him, said this was nothing to play around with.
Any one else had to deal with this?

Take care,
Minnie

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.