Karen,
I had the same thing, jaw split but part of mine removed. I know what you mean! It's a fight for me always.
They took my jawbone and found out afterward that there was no
cancer in the jawbone!!! Oh it is suffering but I am alive and OK>
So question your doctors. Sometimes I think we are sometimes an experiment unintentionally.
Bless us everyone


Partial mandibulectomy and neck dissection 2/3/07. T2NOMO.
Had 14 hour operation which included reconstruction of jaw.
Reconstruction failed. Some radiation, no chemo.