It has not been a pleasant week - for me, anyway. Jimmy's doing fine. I think that the bottom line is that I'm having a hard time rebounding from all my cancer treatments, and that I'm just rundown.
The most bothersome problem has been mouth sores - ulcers, I thought, but it turned out to be small areas of exposed bone. At some point I injured my gum - maybe doing something like eating pita chips- and it couldn't heal properly because my of debilitated condition.
A week ago Fernando Alvarado removed a sliver of bone from an ulcer, using local anaesthesia, and we hoped it would heal but the pain kept getting worse and worse. Jimmy took me back yesterday, and Fernando put me to sleep with general anaesthesia, and cleaned out another piece of bone and some infection and sewed it up. I'm on penicillin and pain pills and feel better.
Fernando has strongly assured us that this is NOT osteonecrosis. The jaw looks very healthy and the tissue is healing.
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