Questions

(http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vJ7ARCdG
I feel like I'm the singer asking all these questions and expecting the answer I want when I'm given all sorts of random ones!)

week #1 we had help during the day since  I was still very weak and tired.  Everyday felt like forever.   Being members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we are fortunate to have a built in system ready to help at a moments notice.  They had meals brought in to help keep us a float.

I had my postop appointment and had a very large tube put in my nose and down my neck to take pictures of the paralyzed cord. But before they do the shovin they spray some stuff that smells and tastes like dirt that has been recently fertilized.   (Just keepin it real and telling you all the good stuff!:-)  This test was almost as bad as the neck biopsy.  Scale of 1-10, 8.8, with the biopsy being the 8.9. 9 of course is reserved for giving birth with your femur bone cracked in half.  And all my births have been done with intact femurs so I have no idea.  Anyway with the test we saw that there was no movement on the left side.  But as I talked to everyone they would always reply with shock that I sounded as good as I did.  This is all due to another tender mercy in my life.  The place where my vocal cord "froze" is great. It's almost in the middle.  If it had been stuck closer to the outer edge I would be a lot more raspy and singing would be definitely impossible.  Amazing what a few millimeters can mean for my quality of life.  As for now my right side is working overtime to try and reach across the center to meet the left fold.  It is tiring talking.  If I don't rest my voice a few times a day I get extremely tired.  Of course this is hard to do with an overly talkative 4 year old who likes to have a running conversation the entire day. Hello Jake and the Neverland pirates!
At that visit we also learned a little more about the cancer. We learned that it had spread. They removed 4 lymph nodes at the time of the surgery and 3 came back positive for the cancer. Which means I have metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma.  While this doesn't change my prognosis it could change how it's treated.  So now we wait.  We wait for more tests and more unknowns and more results.