Fingers crossed for the young 'un.
Its hard when your child is having to face a procedure. And you don’t know what the out come will be. I’ve been there. I’m not going to try to second guess the oncologist. My husband is a surgeon, he’s not here or I’d ask him …I’m sure one of the Drs. on the boards here can be of more help than I can. But from what I know of the type of maligancy that causes the swollen lymph nodes (I don’t even want to write it here), it seems that your son would be a much sicker child at this point if that was what was going on. Children with that aren’t running at 100mph, they don’t have the energy to play.
I wish I could make you feel better. I know exactly how you feel. Waiting sucks.
Thanks…
I’m cautiously optimistic because of his energy level and the fact that the bloodwork didn’t show anything abnormal, i.e. high white cell count, etc. Of course, one of the things I read about lymphoma is that it can be asymptomatic, so I’m not a particularly happy camper right now.
May whatever gods there be, be with your son. Sending supporting thoughts your way.
The normal bloodwork is a good thing for sure. Will be thinking about y’all and sending good thoughts your way. Hang in there.
My best wishes to you and your son for a good outcome.
Another update:
My son had his biopsy yesterday. They did an excision biopsy, removing a mass from a lymph node on the right side of his neck.The surgery went well and he’s doing just fine. He should be able to go to school today and play in his basketball game tomorrow.
We should have results tomorrow afternoon (Friday). To say the least, it is not easy to wait. I am stressed. Sorry to put this out here, but it helps me to type it out. I have to be strong and calm around the kids; I have to be able to function at work.
I have no idea what the odds are that it’s lymphoma; I’ve scoured the internet looking for onfo that doesn’t seem to be there.
It’s surreal…we’re not cancer people, this stuff happens to other people, not us 
I’m sure this goes through the minds of most folks faced with this uncertainty. How will we get him through it if it is? How will we be able to take care of him, our other two kids (ages 5 and almost-2), and be able to function at work and keep life going?
Sorry about the hand wringing, I just needed to type something. Thanks to all of you for your kind words and thoughts and prayers.
I’m still praying for An Arky Kid.
An Arky, sometimes being able to vent to a friend is best.
Sometimes, being able to vent to a friendly stranger. It’s a pity little old ladies telling me their woes on the train don’t give cookies to friendly kids over age 5, I get them quite a lot!
So c’mon in, don’t be a stranger, and vent all you need to.
Just checking in to see how you’re doing. We went through a thing with my 4y/o when he was 2 . He started limping one day for no apparent reason. Thats a symptom of many things, one of which is leukemia. After every imaginable test, we found out he had Legg-perthes, a hip disorder and a walk in the park compared to the other possibilities…waiting on test results was torture before the diagnosis. It does help to talk, post…but you can drive yourself crazy searching on-line for info.
Keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers…
Arky, have y’all heard anything yet? I sure as hell hope they don’t make you wait over the weekend.
I hope you got good news today, and thats why you aren’t hanging out here…
No, we didn’t get word and are having to wait over the weekend…it was a bit of relief, actually, as we were of course on Red Alert Friday and not in such a good state.
Bennett went on a field trip at school and his basketball team played its first game yesterday. He’s still perfectly fine, as far as can be seen.
Thanks so much for asking…I probably won’t update until I know someting more Monday afternoon.
Thanks to you and everyone elso for keeping him in your thoughts…hopefully we’ll be letting out sighs of relief big enough to fill Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons come Monday.
We’ll be thinking about y’all this w.e. I figured from your user name you’re from AR? I’m from Little Rock. We will be breathing a big sigh of relief with you in AR when you get the good news! Take care
Yeah, I grew up in Dardanelle. 
Ahem. If the haters-of-big-ugly-fonts will excuse me for a sec…
WHEW!!!
My son apparently just has hyperplastic nodes…no scary stuff!
Thanks for all you kind thoughts. I need a beer, but I’m swamped at work.
Woohoo! 
That’s wonderful. Congratulations!
StG
I’m so glad it was nothing big.
That’s awesome!!! And absolutely deserving of an enormous font. And possibly animated celebratory confetti. Yay!!!
:: Does happy dance ::
GT
Glad to hear the good news.
For those who may not know, “hyperplastic” = “reactive”.
And for anyone who may want to get enlarged nodes checked out but is alarmed by the prospect of surgery, there’s a technique called fine needle aspiration (FNA) that collects what is essentially a cell suspension from superficial lumps. The material can be studied in much the same way as a biopsy and often settles that essential question of benign vs. malignant (an excisional biopsy may still be needed if the diagnosis is lymphoma, for proper classification). FNA can be done under local anesthesia and in most settings is minimally painful.
Jackmannii, MD
That is great new An Arky!