Today went very unnerving. I saw my EMT. He said he had set up my surgery for this Friday and proceeded to explain that he would be removing the left tonsil, get a pathologist to immediately test it to insure it was cancer, but he says he knows it is anyway due to pet scan showing it in lymph nodes,so he would be doing the selective neck dissection and showed me where I would be cut and told me he may not could save the nerve for my shoulder and not the one for my neck or side of face area and afterwards I would start radiation. Well I tried to start asking questions and mentioned I was on blood thinner so to make a long story shorter, he went out and called pathology and the anasteasoligist and came back and said he couldn't do the surgery for 2 weeks and I had to stop my blood thinner and aspirin immediately and that I have the possibility of a risk of a stroke. He said he would contact my vascular surgeon also. He said his nurse would bring me some papers to sign and if I had any questions he would come back in there and answer them. Well, I definately did, and he came back in and said now that he would only be taking out the left tonsil and have it biopsied and he really didn't want to answer any questions as he was basically to busy and behind due to an earlier emergency. But the question I wanted to ask most of all was: If he does remove the tonsil and if it is canser as he says it is, then wouldn't it possibly spread before they do the neck dissection and radiation? Lord I am in a mess. Now I definately got the blues. This Dr. is very wishy washy. I am calling the American Cancer Society tomorrow to see if they can help me. I did get a copy of the Pet Scan and it confims cat scan and says highly suggestive of neoplasm and a few other things. The good thing was it is confined only in the neck areas on left and smaller part on right thyroid gland, but not anywhere else. He still give me a diagnosis without a biopsy.