Thank you for all the advice! I was able to have one record faxed over but all the rest will be hard copies that I will bring with me. I hope that's fine, but at least they have one record to look over before my arrival.

Making a list of questions is a good idea. I definitely want to push for a biopsy of my left enlarged lymph node. At this point I'm wondering if it's possible that that US was wrong and it actually is a parotid tumor instead of a node since it's rock hard and not growing at all.

I also had the annoying thing where all this week I kept thinking that I should cancel my appointment because my issues really aren't that big, my parotid nodule is super tiny (6mm x 3mm x4mm) and likely isn't even big enough to biopsy, and my nodes are barely even visible in the right lighting. Whereas I hear so many reports on here of people with serious issues going there, and online when I search swollen lymph nodes people have pictures of golf-ball sized swelling while mine is so tiny. I always do this though - it's like the reverse form of hypochondria.

Still worried they're just going to tell me what I already know without doing more testing, but I guess I only have 8 more days to wait until I actually find out what the plan is. I wish I would have done a Telehealth visit first but the option wasn't given to me and even if I did, I wasn't really able to fax most of my medical history over anyways. Plus, I wanted him to be able to feel my lymph node and tumor just in case that gave the doctor more insight.

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