Just a quick update. I'm still awaiting confirmation of my diagnosis. I had the MRI Wednesday. My appointment with the multidisciplinary team has been postponed until next Friday. There's a doctor at Hopkins who has expertise in both base of tongue cancer and graft-versus-host disease so I'm consulting with him first. My appointment is Wednesday.

I'm learning a lot about head and neck cancer and associated treatments in the meantime. I've decided that blood cancers may well be kinder and gentler, although just as deadly. Although the bone marrow transplant was inherently more dangerous, contemplating the head and neck treatments is more frightening. I'm sure there's some "rear view mirror" bias going on here. The known past looks so much better than the unknown future right now.