See-that is why I love posting here. I get such a nice response from people I do not know. It was very much appreciated. You are correct when you say that I have become more "stoic" in the way I handle this now. I just told the doc "I am not crying because I am scared about the diagnosis, I just want you to get the diagnosis so I can get my treatment started and finished. I am crying because I do not know what I am dealing with". He totally understood where I was coming from and promised to move things along as fast as he could. I mean, hey, I have waited almost three weeks from the last biopsy, why not wait a couple more. I would not even mind another biopsy, so long as it yielded the proper results. He said that he thought it was probably a lymphoma that started on the base of my tongue and the right swollen lymph node in my neck may or may not be related. I looked these things up on the internet and a lymphoma that begins on the base of your tongue is classified as a type of non-hodgkins. I was thinking that if this is the case, which I am assuming it is, would I still be able to come in here since non-hodgkins is not exactly "oral cancer"? I think my case is unique because I read it is very rare to have a lymphoma begin in that area as they think this did and in the manner it presented in (lesion-like). Well, that is all for now and I appreciate your continued support for me.
Desiree'
P.S.
My fifteen month old daughter is trying to bite my thigh as I write this! Those are the days long gone, huh Danny? I can't wait until SHE is in high school and I can tell her boyfriend she is a thigh girl, LOL. I can't smack her little mouth, though, because she is so cute when she is doing it. A firm "NO!" works for her!