Toothy Trouble in Paradise

Oh man, wouldn't you know it: just when we thought we were over the hump, Matt has developed an impacted infection in his lower right jaw, basically the site of where the wisdom teeth came out 3 months ago! - and has to have another (small , but still...) surgery of the mouth to "scoop" and clean it all out. OUCH.

We are not sure exactly how it all happened but oh well. He has been working to get into the doctor because his jaw had been getting increasingly painful - and there was obvious swelling too - over the last week or so. We were actually worried it was a tumor or possibly a fractured jaw (which they warn could happen due to radiations effects on bone). Happily the xrays taken today (see photo) show something going on down by the roots of his molars that Dr. Ha thinks is just a nasty infection...But with that being said he does want Matt in and us to deal with it all right away before it gets worse. One of the good things is that Matt is far enough along post-chemo that his white blood cell count should be good and thus antibiotics will be able to be used. We find out tomorrow via a check up with our medical oncologist about blood, etc. so the timing is actually pretty good. We go straight from labs and that dr. appointment to the oral surgeon - oh jiminy.

More to follow I am sure.