Surgery is Over!!!!

Surgery wasn't too bad. I arrived at 5am Thursday morning with 5 circles on my neck. 2 of the circles were lymph nodes that looked really suspicious and the other 3 were nodes that looked regular suspicious?? I was a little confused by the distinction, actually the entire ultrasound was not too clear, but a tech, fellow and finally an attending all scanned my neck from under my jaw to above each clavicle and they thoroughly checked all the nodes/glands for over an hour.

Anyway the surgery took around 3 hours and they removed my entire thyroid, several nodes and transplanted my right parathyroids (for this I'm taking 3000mg of calcium of day). I will not get the pathology report on Bob until Wed or Thurs :( The surgeon said the surgery went well and he was optimistic. I'm thankful that I never felt nauseous and the pain is limited to a bizarre pressure on my neck, like someone is trying to choke me. The pain medicine helps with that. I will have a 3 - 4 inch scar on the base of my neck and a tiny scar below that where the drain was. I guess the big question is what exactly Bob is. I'm going to hit the sack now though because I'm tired and it actually hurts to yawn.