A-Bird,,, I'm still hanging in there. Getting really sick of eating everything with a spoon... Pudding, oh and jello, chicken soup,,,,,, mash potatoes and gravy saved me. But I'm able to do scrambled eggs and egg salad sandwiches now. It's got to look funny to Miss J,, I stand there,,, chew up whatever it is,, yes even jello, then as I swallow I stomp my foot,, and tears damn near well up in my eyes, it was hurting bad. Even swallowing air hurt. That lasted about a week. I still have to stomp my foot,, but it's getting better. I will say this shit hurt,,, and I have a high tolerance for pain. I didn't know what all he was going to do in there. This is what I gather they did, without the robot.
For a modified radical neck dissection, most lymph nodes on one side of the neck between the jaw bone and collarbone, as well as some muscle and nerve tissue are removed.
In a radical neck dissection, nearly all nodes on one side, as well as even more muscles, nerves, and veins are removed.
After all that,, they pulled my tonsils, and did some recon with a robot in my voice box, throat, back of my tongue, sinuses,,, and who know what else. But it's better than what they use to do,, split ya in the center of your lower lip, jaw too,, and go from there back.. Man if they wanted to do that to me,,,, I'd have never gone. Now I have a cancer dentist calling.. I do have hella shitty teeth. At first I figured it was a abscessed tooth, swelling up the node, or something like that. That bubble got popped. But they tested all the lymph nodes that they removed, and cancer was found only in one. Now I guess that's good.... But they still haven't found the cancer itself. It's called occult cancer. A ghost cancer...... I'm going to call back and put off this dentist till I feel better... Hey maybe they will fix my teeth with my insurance now...??? I broke my neck in 1986' and have been disabled ever since. I went back and did rat jobs,,, cash times for years,, but truly never did come back 100%. But I could paint a house, or a bathtub, or a car. So I have what I've always called Medicare/Medicaid. I got real luck,,, SSA goes back a year or two of wages from the time of your accident, to use a a base... Least did then. I got lucky, 84-85' I was rolling in big contracts of decent monies. I was refinishing hotel bathtubs over on the Silver Legacy in Reno, and The Hotel St Clair in San Jose. But maybe this dentist will work with me...
Thanks for stopping by A-Bird.
Well babbling Bill here... Keepem Green