Went to the Onco doc today, he has my slides and tells me that I am not going to get a diagnosis today because he is a clinician and not a pathologist. SOOOO, long story short, he feels that I have lymphoma on the base of my tongue (which I am unfamiliar with) and that the slides are being sent over to Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Come to find out that the pathologist over there was part of Memorial Sloan-Kettering at one point in time and is now the Chairman of Pathology at Fox Chase. The Onco feels that the biopsy was inconclusive because the original ENT did not get the part of the lesion that he needed to and that because of the solution it was put into, they will be unable to perform some test on it that it may need. With that said, he thinks I may have to have a repeat biopsy, but this time at Fox Chase and not at some local hospital. YEAH!!!! For once, someone actually is taking care of me!! He also wanted a PET scan done in the meantime, to look at this lesion and my enlarged lymph node, but according to the secretary in the office, I have to have a path report that says I do have cancer, not just a suspision of the doctors to get this PET scan done. Now, he says he will do it, but after he has confirmed my diagnosis. Uhh, I hate insurance companies!! Well, I am upset because I thought today was the day, but as it seems, it will still be atleast another week before I get this pathology report or a few weeks if I need another biopsy. This is truly a waiting game that I did not ask to play. I am in good spirits though because I finally told people at work and everyone is so supportive!! I knew they would be, but it is just the worrying that gets to me. Oh, and this guys gave me something for the throat pain, unlike the ENT who told me to take Motrin (the onco gave me lidocaine viscous). Like I said, I am glad someone finally wants to help me move things along. And thanks to you guys for listening!!!