I decided that it might be time for a new topic on this since I now have the answer to the pain question.

Today the cut into the abscess some more and the highly technical term GIANT has now been assigned to it. Beginning tomorrow I go in to have the wound repacked hopefully twice a day and for IV antibiotics once a day. Next Monday we will decide if I will go for HBOT to get this wound in my neck to heal.

In the mean time here I sit with a very sore neck, the right side where all of my reconstructive surgery for the pectoral flap was done, that is full of poison. I can actually move the fluid under my skin around and you can feel the heat under the skin. The surgeon said today that it is infection that came from the mouth - a dental abscess. Sure is a big set back and I was progressing so very well.

I am focusing on getting better to start with, but also wondering when you look the specialist in the eye and say that I have been told that because I have had radiation not only once but twice you should not do any drilling or surgery without doing HBOT first and he tells you "Oh you won't need it for this" and drills anyway is it right for me to feel like he is responsible for the fact that all this is happening to me?? What more could I have done?