Wow John, what you're going through sounds oh so familiar. In 1990 I was at the station, getting ready for my evening workout when I felt a tiny knot under my jaw, like a pea. Like yours, in weeks in was the size of a ping pong ball. Got a CT and a biopsy. The node was positive for cancer, a squamous sell carcinoma originating at the back of my tongue. Surgeries (plural) and radiation wiped it out, but it took a year. My voice wasn't that good to begin with, lol, but it was crap afterwards. Went back to full duty at the station, studied and made Captain a couple years later, and remained a Captain of one of the busiest engine companies in the 12th largest Fire Department in the United States for 13 years before I retired after 28 years of service. Nowadays it golf and guitar, whichever is in reach. There is life after cancer, plenty of it. Best wishes to you, hope to hear from you when it's all over.

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