OK, ye wenches and swashbucklin' scallywags, here be the updated on Capt Deb's battle wiv the dreaded "C" Monster:
The new ENT surgeon is Charlotte was GREAT! Very tiny fingers like my wench dentist. She was a little appalled at me not having a needle biopsy done so I wouldn't have to go through 2 surgeries, like I'm having to do. She also looked at the 3 1/2 in scar on my neck and said it was caught in the muscle and that was why it was crooked and quite noticable. She said she would not only take my thyroid out with a 1 1/2 incision, but she would go in and fix the scar that the other surgeon had made.
The lesson in this is that I will NEVER be treated for anything other than a small boo boo in my local hospital again. Third strike, you're out!!! Punctured lung, torn sacroiliac joint capsule from 4 hr hysterectomy, and now this!!!!
I won't have a surgery date till next week, but it looks like sometime in mid Oct. Meanwhile I will stay on the happy pills (Klonipin) and try to amuse myself.
Thank you so much for all your well wishes and concern--it means so much to me, especially from those folks I got to meet up with at the last symposium. I hope some of you that I have gotten to know online can make the next one or else, when I am feeling better, I will have to hunt you down and hug you to death.
Love and Kisses,
Capt Deb
