Thank you all sooo much for your replies and information. Somehow I didn't feel quite so alone and I feel somewhat better about dealing with the lymph node dissection. Well, the lymph node biopsy came back positive for cancer so I'm off to chemo therapy to see if we can piss off this cancer enough to make it leave. Then they'll do the lymph node dissection on both sides of my neck most likely. I'm sure I'll be talking with you later. Thanks a million for sharing with me.