Friday 23rd March is surgery day!
Today we met with the reconstruction plastic surgeon.
He went through the whole process with us.
They will be cutting hubby's lip down to his chin then across his jaw in order to remove his jaw bone.
They will be removing a piece of his jaw and it will be replaced with a piece from his fibular. They will also be taking some nerves and blood vessels to pop into his mouth.
Wee son said "when we give daddy a kiss, we'll be kissing his leg". God love the innocence of children!
There will also be skin grafts to make a new gum for him and then more skin grafts to cover where they take the bone etc from.
The actual removal of the growth will take about 1 hour and the remainder will be the reconstructive surgery, which they are estimating at 10-12 hours.
There will be a very long road to full recovery and he won't be the same, but 'eh I'll still have my wonderful husband.
Only 2 more rounds of testing to go prior to surgery.
Next Tuesday when hubby has the tests to make sure he is ok for such a big amount of time under general anesthetic and a CT scan on his leg to make sure that his bone is suitable to use. If not, it's going to have to be a bit of his hip!
That's enough information for one day!
Updates again next Tuesday.
Have a great weekend!
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