ENT says it is a reaction to the biopsies he took from the base of my tongue during the tonsillectomy, and it will pass with time. My sense of taste isn't affected yet (only two radiation treatments done). It's just that the taste buds enlarged, stood up like Devil's Towers rising from the back of my tongue. Weird.

Randy, Stage 3 tonsil SCC, node involvement, HPV-positive. 7 sessions of Taxol-Carboplatin, 35 rads finished 9/8/10. Post-TX PET and CT 12/1 showed "no metabolic evidence of residual or recurrent disease." Yay!