The ENT actually does know about the previous cases of cancer in my family as well as my exposure to second hand smoke. And I do have one impacted wisdom tooth on my right side, but there is no pain from it and I have a swollen node on my left side so I figured that it wouldn't cause both sides to swell. Plus the oral surgeon said he couldn't find any signs of infection in my mouth. Honestly, if it was just a swollen node that I felt I would probably let this go. But the node feels like it extends out onto my windpipe. And I can feel a bunch of little lumps as well as one bigger bump where it feels like these smaller ones end (it's not the Adam's apple, though, it's a lot further above that), so after reading stuff online I think, "Uh oh, that could be extracapsular spread." And it really saddens me that my mother is convinced that absolutely nothing is wrong because the doctor simply felt the one node and said that he didn't "think" it was cancer. I just can't think of anything else that causes something like, especially since it has gradually gotten bigger since I first found it. And I hope that it does turn out to be something that isn't serious, because it seems like I'm going to have to wait those 2 months (because I'll have no transportation and it's practically impossible to get into see a specialist in Richmond).