As someone who considers myself a realist, sometimes brutally so, I've had times where I knew in my heart of hearts I had a recurrence, I felt that I "literally" could feel the cancer growing again after a hot PET scan. The PET turned out to be a false positive, result of the area still healing and inflammation.

This last fall, 3.5 years out of treatment I had two lymph nodes that swelled dramatically, again I "knew" it'd come back and I had a fight ahead of me. My ENT told me to wait a two weeks before he would do an FNA just to see if they went down, he was also concerned that the FNA would just be inflammation and comeback inconclusive. Two weeks later my nodes had reduced however still swollen, not cancerous.

Our emotions will lie to us, our minds play tricks, so I'll leave the diagnosis in the hands of a biopsy and pathology report every time.


Keep your chin up Brotha!

Eric