The surgery is only a memory now, and will be a week ago tomorrow. I just spent my first full day back at the office, and it was a fairly busy one.
The steri-strips over my incision are starting to come loose and are expected to fall off of their own accord in the next day or two. The little bit of the incision that’s already visible doesn’t look too bad.
I’m not feeling too bad. I got a little tired late in the day at work, but walk and some decaf coffee perked me up enough to get through the rest of it. There is a small amount of pain left in my throat, and the incision area itself occasionally burns a little, but I haven’t had to touch the prescription painkillers for days.
There are lots of doctor visits in my immediate future… follow-up about the surgery, planning for the radioactive iodine treatment, working out a dose of synthetic thyroid hormone, and whatever else might arise in the meantime. Still, I’m happy to have the cancer out of my system and to continue on.
