It started as toothache, but when they took the tooth out and took a biopsy
on the abscess it turned out to be cancerous. It was rather urgent because it
was spreading across the roof of my mouth. The surgeon cut around the nose and
up right underneath the eye. He pulled all that skin back and cut out the whole
upper part of my left jaw and right back to my ear and up to my eye. He had to
put a brace in under the eye so I wouldn’t lose it. Obviously I lost my left
nostril.
When…
