Cancer Recovery: Week 17

This may be the end of it.  I had a PET/CT scan along with a flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy (they shove a narrow tube up your honker to look at your throat) which concluded that:

• The tongue is clean.  No cancer on the tongue.
• The lymph node on the right side of my neck may be cancerous.
• There is a shadow of some kind on one lung, which the doctor says is nothing to worry about.

So it's off to get a biopsy of the lymph node, then wait around for two days for the results.  Today the results came in.

Negative.

So I am now officially cancer free.

Now all I have to do is wait for the deleterious effects of the radiation and chemotherapy to wear off, and I'll be back at my usual bar stool.

Thanks to all of you for helping me through this.  When I was at my worst, I'd re-read your comments and my spirits were lifted.  That helped.