Hi Julie: I haven't been on the site in a while. I started my first week of treatment (chemo x 1 and radiation x 5). The chemo brought me down hard, but I do feel a little better today. One week down and six to go, but not all weeks will have chemo, only two more. I was first diagnosed on 12/23 with SSC after a surgical biopsy on a lymph node. After that, I had about three or four weeks of tests and biopsies to find the primary tumor, which they knew was HPV+. A final tonsillectomy with more biopsies revealed the primary tumor on the left tonsil, which I guess brought me to my official diagnosis. I am working with a small cancer hospital in western Massachusetts but did get a second opinion at Dana-Farber in Boston and was revealed that they agree with everything the local cancer center has recommended. Truth be told, my feeding tube is the worst of it, and I knew it would be, and I wish I had insisted on not getting it. I can be stubborn, and I would have been as stubborn with swallowing as I am with hating this feeding tube. But I am stuck with it now. The tube makes me feel sick in a way the cancer doesn't; strange, huh? Thanks for checking in. How are things with you, now that I babbled? LOL It's good to be back, though. -Michelle