Hi, y'all. I shouldn't be writing when I have a check-up scheduled for Tuesday, but I am worried about a lymph node I have discovered on the same side as my surgery 19 months ago. I actually am concerned about two--one toward the back of my neck, and the one that I am the most concerned about, just under the angle of my mandibular joint. I have not felt it before. I have had some mild ear pain for a while.

I know that you can't diagnose it for me, but if you had nodal involvement show up a significant time after your surgery, please tell me how it appeared and what it was like and how it turned out.

I did not have radiation.

and I might be worrying about nothing. I am also quite stuffy and congested right now..and unfortunate complication in the diagnostic picture.....but I am not "sick"--just allergic, I think.....

I haven't even shared this with my husband yet....probably will before the day is out, but he has so much on his mind right now that I hate to add something else, especially when he can't diagnose it either. He'll go with me on Tuesday for my checkup, and I"ll show it to him before then, for sure. I'll probably give in long before then, so that he can share the worry. I don't know if that is kind or not. I am preoccuppied about it, so he might as well know why I am acting a little odd.

I love next door to an ENT...I might walk next door and have him feel my neck, just to see what he says. I'll keep you posted.

I just needed to share this with somebody, and you guys got chosen. Thanks for being there!

XO