Karen, It's a thought but I doubt I could get surgery scheduled there within the time frame I need to have it done by to be back at work in the fall. If it weren't for having to schedule it around my job (which I do feel like I need to do since this isn't a must-have-now surgery and my workplace has been more than generous at giving me time off when I needed it for treating the oral cancer and then the breast cancer), I think I'd have more flexibility. Which is why I sort of wonder if I should wait 11 months. But then again, I am still hoping to get ris of the tube eventually and that makes all that more drawn out boo potentially.

I now have an appointment with this "new" oral surgeon that my dentist says good things about on Monday and we'll see how I feel about the surgery once I've seen him and hopefully it can be scheduled pretty quickly.

Nelie