Done with hospital beds for a while.

Well I am finally out back into the real world a little bit. By real world I mean condo 1 mile away from the hospital with 2 nurses and tons of drugs. I'm not really hurting much anymore just rather uncomfortable. My entire right shoulder is numb to my ear and my voice sounds like a 70 year old smoker. The brain is pretty impressive at blocking out bad events as I don't remember too much of Monday, I remember it not being fun but I am glad the rest is blocked out.

Dr. Moley was pleased with how well the surgery went, even though it took about 6.5 hours. Leave it to me to have really strange anatomy and make life difficult for them. I still have a small part of my thyroid but he said he got all of the primary tumor off my thyroid so it should be fine. He was worried about damaging my laryngeal nerves on both sides.

Things I learned in the hospital:

-Don't trust anyone except the main Doctor when there are 20 residents and med students following you. They didn't really know what was going on and confused us several times.

-Pain meds can make life bearable if prescribed correctly.

-Marry a nurse who brings her nurse friend.

-Chocolate milk shakes are delicious on a sore throat.