Hi, Roger
the MJ may have impacted your immunity a bit, but the data I have looked at seems to show more correlation then causation (I'm not a medical professional or statistician, - just my somewhat educated opinion). It's not worth beating yourself up over; that energy is better spent on healing.

The radiation effects on my husband's tongue took a long time to heal.

If you have looked at the NCCN guidelines, you already know that your doctors will take what measures are needed if they are concern that they haven't gotten everything. The fact that the LN is so reduced is good; your docs will determine if anything further is needed.

Words have power over our feeling. When I was discussing my husband's future as a cancer survivor, I mentioned the sword of Damacles (sp?). She turned the words on me, and said we had to be vigilant - a much more positive and proactive term. When I got my diagnosis of lupus this fall, I realized that I need to be that way about my own disease.

Best wishes with the waiting, and try to enjoy your children over the holidays!

The Damocles of the anecdote was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse, Italy. Pandering to his king, Damocles exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority surrounded by magnificence, Dionysius was truly extremely fortunate. Dionysius then offered to switch places with Damocles, so that Damocles could taste that very fortune first hand. Damocles quickly and eagerly accepted the King's proposal. Damocles sat down in the king's throne surrounded by every luxury, but Dionysius arranged that a huge sword should hang above the throne, held at the pommel only by a single hair of a horse's tail. Damocles finally begged the tyrant that he be allowed to depart, because he no longer wanted to be so fortunate