This is my first full fledge shower day! One full week since surgery. My neck actually does not look that bad! I dont understand what the steri-strips really are, but they seem to be holding my neck together! Hard to believe... but they are. It feels a bit bumpy like stitches. Oh they are on the underneath layer with the strips on top to seal it thinly. Ok! Go Doc!
Had my follow up with endo on 9/9/2010. As discussed, RAI will follow. I will continue to take my Synthroid, and go on the LID diet for 2 weeks, then receive 2 thyrogen injections instead of coming off my medicine!! WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!! He had my pathology report and the cancer was contained within the thyroid and had not metastisized to any lymphnodes. GOOD NEWS!! Because the cancer had not spread I was a good candidate for thyrogen injections. Ask your doc about it! He upped my dose of Synthroid from 88mcg, to 112mcg. He said it should be higher but he has to raise it slowly. I'm confident he will keep me feeling good once this is over. He has no problem bringing me in the office for labs often. He did not see to be very happy about my voice. He said I was still very hoarse and that damage would not be a good thing... stressed the importance of following up with ENT surgeon.
I sure hope my voice gets better. I am choking if I swallow liquid too quickly, well... at a normal speed for someone that did not just have surgery. The volume of my voice will not go past maybe a 2 or 3. If I try to project it, it simply will not work. I am reading stories of people needing injections in the cords, I hear continue to use your voice to "wake" them up, I also hear dont speak at all. Well if you know me, you know that last one is NOT an option! LoL! My house is so loud its so difficult to hold a conversation. I have to run around turning down the computer, and tv, and music, just to feel half sane. I'm not sure why my not having a voice has made my ears more sensitive to the noise though?? Ha! I'm still being very hopeful. It seems 3 weeks is a popular number for voices to return.... although I've heard 6 weeks, even 6 months!
Here we are 11 days post op. We needed to get out of the house. If you wonder if you can work after surgery... ABSOLUTELY! After all the stress we've been through the past couple months, this past week had actually been the best in awhile. Having surgery over with, and I'm now back home, and I know safe, and feeling pretty good... it was very comforting to me I could finally exhale and breathe!! I still have my steri-strips on but in a dark bar, and my hair hanging, you could barely see it. I just couldnt talk to anyone the entire night!!! LoL!!! We actually had a VERY good night that night. That week going into the weekend, I honestly felt really really good. I even contemplated... just for a second... going kayaking! LoL!!
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