It's easy to get frustrated.

The Resident Doctors,
Sunnybrook "Teaching Hospital"

Sunnybrook is a "Teaching Hospital" so the patient (at least I find) has to look out for their own needs. It's easy to be unintentionally forgotten, for example I had a I.V. Pole that would not roll very well, yet everyone wanted me to walk more (get out of bed). ALL had said they would get me a new pole, never happened, until I decided to go hunt one down myself! There was one not far from my room in a corner.

Jenn R.N., Day Nurse

All is to be expected when going through cancer treatment, and I am lucky there are great surgeons and caring nurses in our hospitals. However there is a shortage of professionals compared to patients, so when I have to write and rewrite the same answers to the same questions to different caregivers, because my mouth and throat are so swollen I can't speak. It's easy to get frustrated.

Gums after first surgery

Hole "healed" into Gum

The first operation was mammoth compared to this time, It was 8 months and 1 day ago from the original surgery. At that time the lymph nodes in my neck were removed along with the skin graft from my arm. So no wonder it was a long healing process, by the time I had bottom partial plate of teeth made, (and got them to fit properly), the cancer came back! So now I am almost back at the start again.