Quote of the Day: Dared to dream

Engineers and Designers dared to dream when, in hindsight, they probably should have stayed awake.
-From the Smithsonian Channel Unbelievable Flying Objects.

Post Op and Doing Fine!

Went in today for my 1 week plus 1 day post Surgery checkup.
Got my bandage off and snipped the stitches. (OH BOY I can take a real shower again!!)

She had the pathology results. She had removed the whole thyroid plus 2 bunches of lymph nodes from either side of the thyroid. The left side bunch was no cancer, from the right there was 1 - 1mm bit of suspicious cells. So it appears that we managed to get the thyroid out early enough to keep it from spreading.

I am doing very well. One amazing thing is that there does not seem to be any numb spots around the incision When I had my ACL repaired on my knee I ended up with a big patch where the nerve was cut and so I do not have feeling but the neck is all good. I find that pretty amazing since the incision is fairly large About 2.5-3 inches. Shouldn't leave much of a scar it will probably end up looking like one of the creases in the neck.

Out of Surgery

And here I am - out of surgery and doing fine. I am quite hoarse which was expected. I can talk well enough to know that my vocal cords came through ok. But I still have a pretty hoarse voice - not great for phone conversations at the moment. I go back in to see the surgeon on Wednesday and Endocrinologist on Tuesday - I will probably be off work most of the week - or maybe I will work from home. I actually am quite comfortable. Surgery went very well and I was never in any real pain. Had a bit of Nausea problem the first day but that was the worst.