Looks like I'll be able to get out of here tomorrow and head down to M.D. Anderson to get the lymph node looked at. it's 3.2 cm so not so small. It had been pushing against a number of nerves in my neck and causing all kinds of trouble.

The good thing is that wth no lung involvement we can just go ahead and do a ND (which I never thought i would be happy with). At this point i'll take what I can get.

My brother is in a much better situation being a stage I (possibly II) so we will go to MDA together and get the news together, then we'll fight together.

Kelly
Male
48, SCC (Soft Palet) Rt.,
Stage 1, T3n0m0,
Dx, 8-09, Start IMRT 35 9-2-09 end 10-21-09
04-20-10 NED
8-11 recurrence, node rt. neck N2b
10-11 33 IMRT w/chemo wkly
3-12-12 PET - residual cancer
4-12 5 treatments with Cyberknife & Erbitux
6-19-12 Pet scan CLEAR
12-3-12 PET - CLEAR