Update from me - my planned neck dissection and TORS mucosectomy that was planned for tomorrow has had to be rescheduled.
The plan to remove my 3 remaining wisdom teeth in the weeks before surgery started well and then went awry. The first two came out without too many issues other than pain, so when I only had one left to go, I foolishly thought “half the teeth, half the pain” Oh how wrong could I be!
My last remaining wisdom tooth wasn’t coming out without a battle and I came away from the extraction appointment feeling like I’d done ten rounds with Anthony Joshua. There was swelling as expected, but my face just grew bigger every day and got to the point it was alarming. I rang up the hospital and they asked me to go up straight away. Great news I thought, some antibiotics and I should be back on track. Wrong again!! Emergency surgery and a few days in hospital was on order, and my cancer surgery pushed back by two weeks.
I’m home now recovering from what was quite an ordeal for one tooth! If anyone has ever been intubated via the nose whilst conscious will understand what I went through.
I am fairly new to this journey but I’ve already learned that the cancer train changes track a lot, and I should expect the unexpected. Hope everyone is having a better time than I am at the moment. Sending love!
If anyone has ever been intubated via the nose whilst conscious will understand what I went through.
Ouch....No! Twice but with a cocktail of intravenous stuff that made it all go away
Hope the face settles down soon and you can get on with it...Hugs
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I wrote a blog about my cancer. just click on the link below
https://todaymycoffeetasteslikechristmasincostarica.com
Oh I did have drugs beforehand and I was as high as a kite but I still remember that awful feeling of that tube going down my windpipe and feeling like I was drowning 
