Brian,

Glad you found this site and sorry you are going through this. Your story including the military sounds like mine except all of my cancer is left side, tonsil and lymph nodes. All of my 20 years in the military I never heard of anyone having HPV until now. Now that it is known what I have, I have had at least 6 people come up and say they have HPV or have went through what we are going through. It really pisses me off because it is kept a secret. I hope after I beat this I can do something to change that. I wish you the best and if you ever have any questions let me know I am about a month or so ahead of you in this journey.

Curt

Age 43, nonsmoking, social drinker
Left tonsil cancer
SCC HPV+16
Stage IV
tonsillectomy, robotic radical tonsillectomy and neck dissection
4 of the nodes removed had cancer. 2 had extra capsular spread.
3x cisplatin 33x rad 11/18/13
Completed treatment 01/08/14