HI Nancy
Thank you so much for encouragement. I'm in a good place post surgery with tests showing that mouth and tongue are clear and tonsil hadn't breached but the lymph had.. Post up I am clear at the moment but high likelihood cells that haven't started to go bad so need an aggressive clean up. Frightening time as noticed puffy pea sized gland type thing under jaw but also this is where I was bruised to hell during wisdom so probably a bit paranoid. Was scared that when matrixed the T staging comes out at a 4a - 4 is scary. Was told that now all cut out to relax and not panic but just focus on next stage which is to stop any bad cells that haven't kicked off yet.
Thank you so much for your words.

John

Life long none smoker, social drinker. Age 46
25 July positive node. Primary in left tonsil.
Neck Disection 27 Aug 20+ nodes removed, bilateral tonsillectomy.
Tonsil primary, other mouth, throat, tongue biopsies showed clear. Node breached but no evidence of spread in surrounding tissues or any other nodes.
T2N2aM0
Wisdom Teeth (all 4) removed mid Sep and Peg fitted first week Oct.
Started six weeks, 30 rads, six chemos total, chemo on Mondays and rads Mon to Fri on Oct 14th.