Hi Jenn,

Glad to hear you are OK. I hope you have an extremely speedy
recovery.

take care

Debbie



--- In ThyroidDisease2@yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer" <jimnjenh@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello to all!
>
> I am alive…lol! Still very sore and sitting and trying to read
makes
> me dizzy. Surgery only took two hours rather then three! I had a
> very large goiter that was growing inwards compressing my vocal
cords
> and esophagus along with the 4 cm mass that was growing out over my
> trachea. Other then the small nodule on my left lobe nothing came
> back cancerous…it all came back Hashimoto's. Which means NO
> Chemo!!! All my blood work cam back good, which means no problems
> with my calcium levels. I had to be tested every three hours so I
> look like a druggie. My hands and arms are so bruised from the Iv
> and blood work. I was able to eat a back potato the night of
surgery
> and actually swallow it…it has been so long since I could do that!
> It was AWESOME! Tuesday was a rough day for me…I could not keep any
> pain meds down and I spent 12 hours throwing up…so just had surgery
> on my throat, I am now throwing up and NO pain meds…thought I was
> going to die…they had released me at 11am and they where ready to
put
> me back in the hospital at 6pm. I was able to take some IBprophine
> and sleep for a few hours. I continued to be sick tell around 9pm…
> but slept through the night and by Wednesday morning I felt a
little
> more myself. I am very slow moving and still have people helping
me
> through the day with day care kids today and tomorrow. My neck is
> really stiff and I am very dizzy…each day I feel a little bit
better
> though! I have the stitches out on Monday and then need to take an
> easy for the rest of that week. I am all ready on meds so I think
I
> am doing good with not crashing. Thank you to all of you for your
> thoughts and prayers! I pray now I can live a normal life!!!
>