Chit, back on topic, lol. The neck dissection was most def the smallest of any of the issues or procedures I had, it was a walk in the park and my only side effect is a slight strange feeling on that side of my face, I wouldn't even call it pain, I am sure its the nerves over there. While he was in there he took tonsils and had to "pick" the cancer off of some nerves and of course took a few lymph nodes. Very unlike the FNB I give all the praise to my surgeon, I think he is an amazing surgeon. I watched a video on a similar surgery and I am amazed at how he was able to do what he did with so little after effects. Healing from the tonsillectomy was 100X worse. I realize one bad surgeon and one bad move could result in drastically different results.