I had surgery for 14 hours for ORAL cancer which involved removal of my jaw bone and replaced with bone and muscle from my hip bone 3 months ago. It has been massive and wondered if there was anyone who has had the same.
It does indeed sound like massive surgery and I hope you are recovering well from it?
We have some useful information on our website on what to expect after your operation for oral cancer. You can read more about it here and I hope it will contain some helpful tips to help you with your recovery.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ring our cancer nurses on this free number 0808 800 4040, which you can do Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.
I hope you will also meet others here who have had a similar operation so you can compare notes and share experiences.
Best wishes and we wish you a fast recovery from this big operation,
My Dad had the same sort of thing - we weren't too close at the time and he doesn't talk about it too much so I'm not 100% of what was actually done but it sound similar to your situation.
He played a lot (and still does a bit) of golf and they had a trophy made in the shape of a jaw bone for a golf tournament.
All I know is he had a tough time but he's an inspiration to us all some 20 years on - especially to my sister who is now battling stage 2 breast cancer.
