Good luck with your surgery, I wish you the very best. I feel like I am fully recovered now after five weeks but have just scheduled 35 rounds of radiation to begin after Christmas. My cancer is related to HPV. Even though the margins were clear from the lesion removal my doctor said I would have a 50% chance of recurrence without radiation so to increase my odds of no recurrence I have opted for more treatment. It seems that the anxiety of not knowing what will happen is half the battle, but I can reassure you that surgery was not as difficult as I anticipated. My lymph nodes have resolved after being drained a couple of times. Everyone seems to recover differently, Hopefully you will breeze through the whole process!