Malka.....what a story! My husband is a Tulane-trained physician, so we have a great deal of respect for Tulane. Who is the ENT chair now? the plastic surgeon?

I have so many questions, and my husband, who is a surgeon himself, is worried about the many things he feels could go wrong with such a big surgery, especially since i am doing well with the obturator. He does, however, realize that he has no idea what it is like to live with the obturator. It isn't just awful, and I do quite well with it, but I don't want to live 20 or more years with it, and I DO intend to live 20 or more years!!


Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!