Hello everyone. I have not been here for a while. My recovery is going great.
My question is for my best friend. He also had a tumor in his tonsil but his went to stage four before they found it. He had to have a "radical" neck dissection. They cut from his right ear, along the jaw bone, to his chin and then from the center if that incision down his neck to the shoulder. They said the removed a lot of scarred tissue, his jugular vein, and sixteen lymph nodes.
All of the tissue came back clean, so we are hoping his cancer is gone.
It has been three weeks since the surgery and he is still in nearly unbearable pain. Has anyone gone through this? If so, how long did it take you to recover?

Thank you in advance.

Max Young
Stage 2 tonsil cancer --- SURVIVOR!