Rob

Well thought out plan. For what it is worth, my experience with the neck dissection is that is was not as bad in affecting my quality of life as I had feared. Granted I was lucky in that my surgeon was able to spare all the muscles and nerves (but like your Surgeon #2 there were no guarantees going in, just a promise to try and avoid it), but the numbness is slowly going partially away now 8 months later. I did need extensive physical therapy on my left shoulder as even without being cut, they were traumatized. It was a kicker though to go through this procedure only to find out that not one of the lymph nodes removed was cancerous. Oh, the old Bayesian dilemma. You do the math and you pay the price