My husband had his ND on Feb. 5th and people we see now are always like - wow. I thought you had surgery or I thought you were sick, etc. He looks great!! It's all in the right ENT surgeon with plastic surgery skills or in having a plastic surgeon assist the ENT. He actually looks so good right now that I am almost embarrased for the people helping us and bringing meals to see him, because I think they will think - what the HE*&, he's not sick. :-)... Plus he has the confidence of knowing he's doing everything he can to fight this cancer. We figure being around to complain about the scars is alot better than being dead!! Good luck to you and I am still praying for Mary. She is really lucky to have such a wonderful friend in you.