Cheryl, sorry for the disquieting thoughts dogging you. Just think how confident you're going to feel once you've been checked out so thoroughly. It's hard not to imagine the worst once you've lived through it.
Re the anxious folk T is thinking about, it troubles me that by self-diagnosing a genuine health issue may go undiscovered and untreated. When someone decides they've got cancer, they stop searching and may never find out it's actually Crohn's disease, an allergy, a bacterial infection.... or pistachios.
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T3N2aM0 HPV+
5/26/13 discovered painless superball-sized lymph node in neck
6/26/13 DX SCC R palatine tonsil
7/16/13 TORS tonsillectomy & selective ND, mets to 2 nodes
9/3/13 Cisplatin and rads begin, tolerated 1.5 of 3 planned chemo doses
10/16/13 Treatment ends
Dec 13 Ulcer appears at surgery site
Jan 17 Biopsy -- no cancer!
Feb 17 CT/PET Scan lights up tonsil bed & nasal cavity, docs say probably inflammation, don't panic, rescan when ulcer subsides
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