Post-Op

So I took myself off of the narcotics after two days at home because I was getting restless. I wanted to drive and I wanted to return to the gym. So I started taking ibuprofen instead, which dulled the pain but is also an anti-inflammatory. The scar isn't horrible. I felt better after I took the dressing off, to be honest.

Tuesday I saw Dr. S. He was thrilled with the healing thus far and said I could return to all of my normal activities. I thought this was funny because I don't even know what normal activities are anymore, and this hell has only been going on for a month! He also had the -da dum!- pathology report. The thyroid had only the one tumor, it was 1.4cm. The three lymph nodes were all clear. It was the best case. He told me to go see Dr. M. So I called and made an appointment for Thursday, today.

So today I got to see the Hottie of the Month, Dr. M. I am more in love with that man than I have been before. He is...mesmerizing. If only... Anyway, back to business. He said, "So you survived?" Then he started poking at my scar/scabby incision and said I was still swollen but that I looked to be healing well. I mentioned that I was still having some tingling but that it was sporadic so he tapped on my face but I didn't have any twitches. He told me I had the best possible outcome, that I am cured, and there is no cancer in my body. He is not sure I need radioiodine. But he needs to think about it. There are benefits to killing off all of my remaining thyroid tissue but then there are the risks of RAI. He made a mention of people who have RAI later having a higher rate of recurrence. This I did not know. He made an allusion to my reading, which I thought was interesting because he didn't see especially disapproving. My reading has bothered him in the past, to say the least. But that was "before." Before I lost weight, before I lost the bad attitude, before I noticed what a ridiculous hottie he is and essentially became putty in his hands. But I digress. My meds were increased and he gave me a lab slip to test my TSH and my thyroglobin. We had a long discussion about antibodies and I told him that I had them done on my first TSH test and they were elevated. He dug it up and said that I was absolutely right and that was going to make things more difficult at first.

Why do they suddenly respect my intelligence so much? It's very odd. Dr. M has been less
than friendly in the past and definitely not cool at all and now suddenly he's cool and friendly?
Even when he did my biopsy he was jumpy as hell. He is so sexy. Gah. Damn older male authority figures!!!