You must be getting tired of me telling you that it's more Wait-and see, but that's what's going on with my jaw. They now suspect that the recent pain and swelling are being caused by a bacterial infection, so I was put on a three-week course of antibiotics. Some of the pain and swelling have gone down, which is positive news--but the jaw area is still not healing. The hope is that the lack of healing is due to the infection, so it's more wait-and-see while the antibiotics do their job and I can get another progress report after that.
I did get the right eye cataract replaced three weeks ago, so am still legally blind in my left eye and see 20/20 in my right eye. The left eye gets done on September 5, so please send good vibes that day.
Mike
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Double Header for Team Mike--Need Good Vibes
Today is the first day of a big Double Header for Team Mike to send out some Good Vibes. I have cataract replacement surgery in my right eye this morning and an appointment with my jaw surgeon on Monday, and can use some of your great support from the distance.
The eye doctor tells me that I have cataracts in both eyes, most likely a side effect from corticosteriods I took three years ago to reduce swelling caused by the radiation treatments. The right eye gets done today; the left eye will get done in about a month. I am told that this procedure has a 99.9% success rate, but considering my SFL since this all started, I'm not taking anything for granted.
For a long time I was confident that my jaw was slowly but surely healing from the debridement in April. That's no longer the case. There is an exposed bit of dead bone, and the pain and swelling have increased over the last month. I was hoping that I would get good news at this coming Monday's appointment, but now I'm not so sure. If the wait-and-see time is over on this, I am pretty sure the doctor will tell me I need a left jaw replacement in the near future. But, I still have my fingers crossed that this will turn around, so need your good vibes to help me get some positive news on Monday.
Mike
The eye doctor tells me that I have cataracts in both eyes, most likely a side effect from corticosteriods I took three years ago to reduce swelling caused by the radiation treatments. The right eye gets done today; the left eye will get done in about a month. I am told that this procedure has a 99.9% success rate, but considering my SFL since this all started, I'm not taking anything for granted.
For a long time I was confident that my jaw was slowly but surely healing from the debridement in April. That's no longer the case. There is an exposed bit of dead bone, and the pain and swelling have increased over the last month. I was hoping that I would get good news at this coming Monday's appointment, but now I'm not so sure. If the wait-and-see time is over on this, I am pretty sure the doctor will tell me I need a left jaw replacement in the near future. But, I still have my fingers crossed that this will turn around, so need your good vibes to help me get some positive news on Monday.
Mike
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