Thanks Cheryl and Christine, you are so kind to me. Please forgive me, I was too quick to panic. <red face here> My RO says I'm just a month out of surgery and what I'm seeing is changing architecture as things heal. My uvula is being pulled to the surgical side as tissues close over the fistula/defect from surgery. It's off-center now, and I mistook that for the tonsil site closing in. It's hard to see well because I can't open very wide. He says my ear pain is consistent with the major surgery.

Even if it is a recurrence the response would be the course we're on, Cisplatin plus radiation. Bottom line is we're going to give it another 10 days before worrying more or a biopsy. In my heart of hearts I would like my surgeon to look at it, but I can't take time off work to make the trek with so many absences looming for treatment.

I guess this was my first taste of the fear that every mysterious change will trigger from here on out.