| OP   Supporting Member (50+ posts) 
 Joined:  Sep 2013 Posts: 94 Likes: 1 |  Heh, Don, I think you hit the nail straight on the head!  You could be a great psychologist! 
 I do tend to over think and over worry about everything, no matter how minor; so you can only imagine how much I am over thinking in this situation.  I was told this by many different people, in many different situations.  It even includes my own boss who thinks I think waay too much (and we are both nerdy scientists who are supposed to think a lot).  :-)
 
 I guess it is just way of trying to take some control of things I realistically can not control at all.  For some reason trying to come up with the best, most researched dental hygiene plan ( or even skin one,but I spared the forum those questions) makes me feel like I can control something.
 
 Thank yuo for your honesty, much appreciated!
   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
 
 
 
 
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