Quick update on my front --

The initial biopsy taken last week of my "suspicious" lymph node came back negative for cancer. My ENT feels, considering my history, that this isn't enough evidence to fully convince him that it's not cancer. So he's going to go ahead and take out the whole node and have it checked out.

I'm totally fine with that. Better to be safe and proactive, than to wait around and let it grow if it is cancer. Of course, he's booked until late next week, so I get to play the waiting game for awhile yet before this proceedure is done. In the meantime, he wants me to take antibiotics to see if that might knock out any infections I may have. Nerve-wracking indeed.

Here's another crappy part to all of this. A few days before my initial PET scan that started all of this, I got a job offer from a newspaper in North Carolina, which would put my wife and me much closer to our families than my current situation (we live in Arizona right now). They loved my resume and writing samples. They offered me the job sight unseen. Wow!

But when all these "suspicious findings" showed up on tests and I let them know why we were hedging on accepting the offer, they dropped me faster than all of us dropped our radiation masks after our last rad appointment. It's pretty frustrating, but if I'm going to believe God is in control of my health, then He must know what He is doing with regards to jobs, etc. LOL

I guess it's the lame excuse they gave me as to why they were withdrawing the offer that hurt the most, especially after enduring what I endured nerve-wise the past week or so...

I realize job stuff is petty in light of what many on the boards are going through, but it's a bummer nonetheless...

My love and prayers to all of you... Thanks for listening...

Eric