Thank you David for your post. It was the last thing I read before we got on the road to Philly and gave me some peace of mind that we are all in the same boat.
I'm going to go ahead with this major surgery with high hopes that I'll get through it and then adjust to my new normal.

So hard for me to believe anything is wrong since I feel so good and just had an MRI that showed no cancer in throat.
I will be getting PET scan here in Pitts. so that should show the true facts and my final deciding factor.

Thank you and best of luck to all