Barb, Did you have IMRT? I was told by both the rad oncologist at Dana Farber and the rad. oncologist here that there would be two weeks delay after simulation to program the IMRT so as to do parotid sparing during rad. It actually ended up taking my rad oncologist here three weeks, which annoyed me. Apparently, it's a big job, even for someone who knows their stuff and usually there's a line of folks ahead of you waiting......