I watched the show with my sisters and we are glad to see they talked about the issues but horrified at how they presented life after surgery. Our mom had her mandible removed and she was in no way horribly disfigured or looked at as some kind of freak in public. I know the character in the show had suffered from a clef lip or something along those lines as a child and that was what they are emphasising. It was for some reason a very hard show for us to watch. My younger sisters felt like they were calling mom a freak. I know mom struggled with the change in her appearance, but it was in no way a deciding factor when it came to having the surgery.
I was glad to see the HPV link being highlighted and it's always good to see oral cancer on main stream tv shows. They just made it out like the kid would have a big hole in his face. I don't think they even mentioned that a new bone would be made from the leg.
Someone at ABC must know someone with oral cancer because greys anatomy had an episode with seth green in which he had a tumor around his corotid artery. Lets just say that didn't end well...
I was wondering if anyone on here saw the show. I was thinking about you all the whole time I was watching it.