update

Hi guys,

i got my sutures taken off yesterday and my pathology report came back with really good news and then some. My Dr. was really happy and announced that of the 32 lymph nodes removed all came back negative. this means no need to reopen and go into my right side! And interestingly enough they also found a second lesion on my thyroid which was papillary carcinoma a.k.a regular thyroid cancer - it turns out that i had both regular and medullary thyroid cancers (a.k.a MTC)at the same time. My scar looks pretty bad ass right now and there's still a lot of swelling, but this will get better in time. And the numbness and stinging could take months or even up to a year to go away...ugh. Sister joined an MTC chat room and people are describing very different post op stories - but most of them are well over two- months of headaches, numbness, chronic fatigue and upto a year of no or little feeling of the shoulder area...it's still so recent that i don't know if how long this will last for me, but today i had a killer headache and the "snapping rubberbands on my sunburn" sensations on my left shoulder were so uncomfortable. the next step from here is to slowly work on stretching/exercising my shoulder and following up with my endocronologist a couple more times over the next month. I'm not giving up on the idea of a 'speedy' recovery, but i guess i'll need to take it day by day. hope tomorrow will be better. Heard that the summer party is coming up on the 23rd....are you all going?