Police chief battles cancer, speaks out against chew tobacco
by Allison Rupp

Doctors sewed Jim Hahn back together like he was Frankenstein.

After removing the skin underneath his tongue, part of his jaw and the lymph nodes in his neck, doctors used bone and skin from his forearm to rebuild the bottom of his mouth and his jaw.

They transferred an artery from his arm to replace an artery in his neck.

To repair the missing skin on his arm, surgeons took a piece of skin from his thigh.

"I was still trying to recover from being cut head to toe when they sent me to chemo and radiation," said Hahn, 33, who was diagnosed with head and neck cancer in April 2007. "I was horribly, horribly sick. It was a nightmare."

Never did the Diamondville police chief think a little can of Copenhagen would result in this ordeal.

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