Thank you guys. Here's the thing. A few months back, Mike started feeling a burning sensation in the back of his throat. Everything including water burns it. He had a routine appt with a radiation oncologist, who was a new guy that we had never met and he said it was just an ulcer. Now since we didn't know this guy and he was really young, I wanted to go see his ENT and see what she thought. She thought the same thing, said it just looked like an Ulcer and gave him sone instructions. TIme kept passing and it wasn't getting any better, he actually punches the table as he swallows because of the pain. Sooooo, we went back to the ENT about a month later and this time she says that it changed, at this point, it's starting to feel hard and more like a tumor so he had a PET scan done and there was uptake in the throat area and that's why she did this biopsy. WHen she came out of surgery to talk to me, she said there is a cherry size tumor on the base of his tongue and also some on his Tonsil, same side as his original cancer.
I don't know if it's my gut or if I'm just paranoid, but I did not feel good about this ulcer from day 1. Sooooo, I know that having this surgery is going to be rough but I'm also afraid that if he doesn't have this surgery, we are going to find out that this is cancer too late. If this is cancer, it came back very fast so I have to assume that it's a pretty aggresive cancer.
Also, Mike has a very high tolerence for pain. HE went through all of his treatments the last time never needing a feeding tube,....I don''t even remember hearing him complain. HE drank 6 insures a day and never complained, he made it look like a walk in the park. Whatever this is...it really hurts him. He's losing alot of weight and not looking too good.

I think her train of thought at this point is...why leave it to chance. Let's be aggressive, get in there, make sure what we are dealing with. Worst case is he does have cancer. Best case scenario is, she goes in to do the biopsy, it comes back negative and whatever that is on his tongue that is so painful, it will be cut out and then he can heal and get back to normal.