Hey guys you are all so great to respond and offer these positve and supportive thoughts. But I still feel like we're not fully on the same page. This node was outside the parotidectomy & neck dissection area and was seen on the pre-treatment PET scan. So... it shouldn't be anything related to radiation nor healing. Or at least I wouldn't think so.
And yeah - it's being monitored and we'll talk with the doc about it Tuesday morning. It is in the radiation field so my hope is it's being taken care of. But of course I worry - this cancer being so rare and so aggressive and the intial metastases, etc. I guess basically we just hope that treatment is taking care of it - if it even is/was anytghing and that we will know for sure after the post-treatment scan(s).

Anyway - thanks for "bearing" with me on this one.