She said it looked like? Obviously your mind now starts working over time. Get it checked out and it might be a local infection with tempory swollen Lymph node.
I am 53 but feel 19. You have definitley found the right site for advice.Find out and get it fixed if you have too.
I am maybe 2 weeks a head of you. talk to people even if it turns out to be HPV and Lymph node these are very treatable condtions.

21st March squall cells.Endescopy not oesophagus, ENT .April endo nose CAT MRI general Panendoscopy prim-HPV 16 base of left tongue one node-stage 2.23rd of May.14/5/12 9 teeth out.8/6/12 PICC inserted.11/6/12 1st Chemos 25/6/12 2nd Chemo Cisplatin5FU:27/6/12 PEG23/8/12 Radiation finished 1/9/12.