Laurie

DavidCPA's advice on avoiding second guessing will help you avoid a lot of needless worrying and heartache - and unfortunately you real reasons to worry without beating yourself up over "should've, could've" . The issue of neck dissection is a hot one, since the majority of posters have reported that the lymph nodes taken out were not cancerous. While this is good news that it had not spread, it is also bad news in that it shows that the neck dissection was unnecessary. I may have missed you posting on what the results were, but I do find it amazing that so many people here seem so happy to have an unnecessary surgery done. So I find your concern a refreshing dose of reality.
The best remedy for worry is to take remedial ACTION. I have a suggestion that may require you to PUSH the doctors, but you will be glad you did. Insist on a TSH level blood test for his thyroid so you have a pre-TX baseline on what is normal for your husband. Radiation very often damages the thyroid and leaves the patient cold and weak yet because there is controversy over what is the right TSH level with labs having a 5.5, a 4.5 or the most advanced ones in tune with the 21st Century, 3.0 as the highest acceptable level, it is very very hard to get a doctor to prescribe thyroid medication without pre TX baseline. I am a personal example since before TX, I had a TSH of 1.6 and after TX it shot up to 4.3 but no doctor would help me these last two years until I discovered blood tests done by a cardiologist that I got the results from the day after finding out I had cancer so I had paid no attention to the 1.6 TSH. With that, I have finally been started on one little pill that my endocrinologist thinks will bring back both energy and warmth.
I hope you never need the results of this pre TX test, but get one if your husband does not have a TSH level.
Charm