Welcome to OCF! I hope you will not have to be a part of this forum! Glad to hear you are already set up with an ENT. If things do turn out to be cancer, please go to a large cancer facility for your treatments. Also, getting a second opinion is a great plan too! IF and I am saying IF it is cancer then you will want to round up all your friends and relatives to help you. Make a list with everyone's names and numbers and let them know you will call them if you need help. Its a good idea to try to eat all your favorites right now too. If you are sick then you will have a change in your eating habits.

I hope you will take this opportunity to quit smoking! This may just be a warning at this time, you may not get another one. I am a former smoker and one day on my way for a test I got angry that I was stupid enough to smoke and what it did to me. I threw those cigs right out the window and never smoked again. If I can quit so can you, its a mind over cigs issue and you can do it!!!



Christine
SCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44
2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07
-65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr
Clear PET 1/08
4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I
surg 4/16/08 clr marg
215 HBO dives
3/09 teeth out, trismus
7/2/09 recur, Stg IV
8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy
3wks medicly inducd coma
2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit
PICC line IV antibx 8 mo
10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg
OC 3x in 3 years
very happy to be alive smile