Early one morning, about a week before her surgery, Suzi's classmates and friends quietly covered her door with hearts. Each heart held a message of hope: tender words of encouragement, scriptures, hymns, pictures, poems, love, and compassion. She was very touched and moved the hearts to the wall outside her room where she can look at them often. To show our love and support, we are inviting people to add hearts to the wall. If you would like to add your support, you are welcome to bring one by the house (or use the hearts we have here) or please contact one of us for the address. You are also welcome to just send us a message and we can transfer it to a heart for you.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Details of the surgery

For those who don't know the details of Mom's surgery today, here is my basic knowledge:

They will be removing the part of her jaw and upper palate that has the cancer in it.  They will also be reconstructing her jaw and palate during the same surgery using a bone from one of her lower legs.  They will also take a skin graft from her lower leg to reconstruct her palate and they will take a skin graft from her upper thigh to cover the skin graft on the lower leg.  The surgery is complicated and will take about 14 hours.

She will be in the hospital recovering for at least a week.  She will need to learn how to swallow again and won't be able to leave the hospital until she is able to swallow.
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