Recovery

[lnr]

Thanks all who sent good wishes. Surgery apparently went well on Thursday, and I was allowed home the same evening. Since then I've largely been curled up in my pyjamas under the duvet reading lots and letting Mike look after me. I've finally got up properly today :)

I'm still achy, I've got a big scab a couple of inches long along one side of my neck, but it's right along an existing crease, so once it's healed the scar should barely show. And I'm not in enough pain to be worth taking even paracetamol, which is brilliant.

I'm taking vitamin D and calcium supplements for a fortnight, until the other three glands supposedly recover from being rather suppressed and everything gets back to normal, and I go back to see the consultant in 4 weeks. I'll be seeing my GP on Monday though, to give him my discharge letter and check that I've not got too much calcium in my system now. There's a bit of me that's scared I'll be like my neighbour and find the operation hasn't worked and they need to operate again and look at the other glands. I hope not!

I don't think I'm up to sitting in front of a computer all day yet, it makes my neck ache, but I should be OK by the end of next week I guess, we'll just have to wait and see. Overall I'm a lot more recovered than I thought I'd be though.

Comments

[angua.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, that is very good news!

[boxcat.livejournal.com]

I must have missed the original references to the surgery - so I'm glad everything went well.

Hope the rest of the rest of the recovery goes well, and hope to see you soon.

[nassus.livejournal.com]

Yay - glad it's all gone so well. Great you don't need painkillers. The next few months will be interesting to see if it makes as much difference to you as they reckon these things do. *hugs*

[knell.livejournal.com]

Having pioneered the "scar on the side of the neck" fashion a few years ago, welcome to the club! My incision was fairly radical (a three-hours-plus surgical session) but the only bit that's at all slightly visible nowadays is the bit that goes directly downwards from the ear. Hurrah for modern suturing techniques.

[rmc28]

Glad to hear it's gone so well.