Dear All,
I hope you are feeling good, or at least that you can all be at your best and fighting hard.

5th ENT visit (2nd onchologist) since I started feeling weird. New DR (2nd Cancer Hospital) was careful and looked well-prepared, despite tonsils are not his major topic. He reconsidered the picture, and doubted of the previous visits. Humanly, he was also the only one who asked me frankly how I felt, even before I could tell of the weight loss and fatigue. Either I look that badly, or he is just a rare breed (for my own, unlucky experience so far).
Scoped mouth manually and with camera and saw a remote lesion of 5mm (EU measurement, the diameter of a small/medium-sized pea) in my inner/upper right tonsil (here we are), sth that he said could only be seen by manually splaying the 2 little pillars with 2 sticks at the same time. The tonsil itself felt augmented and harder under his fingers, always on the right side. No other unusual reports mouth + neck ('only' the 1CM submandibular lymph node on the right side as well).
3 biopsies to be taken next Monday, and listened carefully to my perplexities and fears. I felt I was in the right hands. Cold comfort, still comfort.

I know you do not have Italian visitors here as for now, but I know Christine, who for sure keeps good track of anything, will notice from this experience how the 2 different cancer centers acted here; should you ever read of another patient who needs checks or care for his/her mouth in Italy, I think this is a little good lesson to learn from, and a different preparation and professionalism to keep track of. No matter how this goes (as God - and isthologic results only will tell how much I shall pay for such a different approach).

All the best to you all, and may you all be able to feel at your best and to enjoy little pleasures and good company.
Lulu