That is yet another coincidence, n74tg. Life is strange, isn't it?

I have seen a nice new endocrinologist today about the thyroid nodule. She agreed with my surgeon that we should wait till after RAD to do another FNA, and it was scheduled for early February next year. The nodule does look suspicious, its PET uptake was quite high and apparently, for the original FNA last year the specimen was scant which means that malignant cells might have been missed. If it is cancer, then I will need a new surgery to remove the whole thyroid gland. Since the surgery can not be done till I am recovered sufficiently from RAD, they think it is much better for me not to know now. Obviously, I am very stressed out. Imagine having two unrelated cancers in the same body part (neck) at the same time! The odds of such thing!

I have also just somehow managed to hurt my neck dissection surgery scar when taking a sweater off so that it is bleeding a little bit and glue flakes were falling of containing fresh blood. Called the JH hospital, and have been waiting for over an hour to be called back and told what to do, whether I need to go to ER or not. Pretty freaked out and mad at myself at the same time.

36, female, left tonsil HPV+ SCC, T2N1
8/28/13 SCC in left tonsil
9/12/13 surgery:TORS and selective neck dissection (levels II-IV), 23 nodes removed
9/18/13 post surgery biopsy: 2mm clear margins, a 7mm lymph node positive in level IV, no ECL
10/28/13 rad begins, 30 treatments, tomotherapy
12/09/13 radiation ends!
2/10/14 papillary thyroid cancer
2/26/14 PET shows clear neck other than thyroid cancer, but with high uptake in an ovarian cyst
2/27/14 thyroidectomy
3/5/14 pelvic ultrasound