I want to add this...having HPV 16 probably saved my husband's life according to his doctors. He had stage 4a Back of Tongue cancer. He drank, smoked, chewed tobacco for over 30 yrs. Who knows where he got it but honestly, he is lucky it was that kind of cancer if you can consider it lucky. He went through 35 radiation treatments and 3 cisplantin treatments...horrible but over a year later, you would not know he had cancer.

I have read that it can stay dormant about 20 yrs....I will do some more reading on that but one of my orthodontist friends did say that his generation (he's in his 50s) are going to see an explosion of this cancer due to HPV16.

hang in there....he is upset and angry that he has to deal with this. Don't let him throw that blanket on you as someone has to remain strong through the process and it's going to have to be you.

Hugs my friend