Pathology report II

So we went to Chapel Hill today for the 2nd pathology report. It was pretty good news. There was another small tumor on the left side that was taken out. So its good that I got the total thyroidectomy. There was no sign of vascular invasion and no sign that [...]

The kick-off to Christmas

We enjoyed a lovely Thanksgiving week. Thanksgiving dinner was at the inlaws this year. My sisters and I went up to Cary and crashed at Jamie’s pad so we could be closer to the Black Friday sales. I dragged them out of bed at 3am and we divided and conquered our sale [...]

Thanksgiving in Kindergarden

I had the pleasure of attending Asher’s kindergarden Thanksgiving program and feast today. It was adorable. Mom took the younger kids for me so I could go. Another reason its good to live near family!

I’m Thankful (in no particular order)

1. The four most beautiful, sweet, well behaved children ever.
2. My husband of almost 10 years who gets better every year.
3. Having more than one place to share Thanksgiving day with family.
4. That BJay was able to fix our busted water line and we didn’t have to call a plumber…except for Donovaughn [...]

Second time around twice as fun

So my second surgery this month was successful. This time they made me stay over night, and that was torture. I had to be away from my baby for a whole 24 hours. She wasn’t happy without me either. My awesome mother in law took the three younger kids for me [...]

Fun night

After having the kids help me clean all morning and taking a nice nap, we decided to go for a hike around the reservoir park. BJay wanted to see what the water level is there. It took a good 40 minutes to get the kids all rounded up and in the car…okay most [...]

Pathology

So we got the pathology report back. It wasn’t what I was hoping, but about what I was expecting. There were two tumors and two different types of thyroid cancers. Both are highly treatable, highly survivable cancers. The smaller tumor was papillary, which is the most common, most curable type [...]

Doing well

Here I am right before surgery with a “yes” on the part of my thyroid that was going to be removed.

Here is a picture Hila took of me the day after showing the bandage.

And here is what the scar is going to look like. It doesn’t actually look so bad in this picture.
So tomorrow [...]

It went well

The surgery went well. We went in at 6am, got into surgery at 7:30, (right on time) the surgery was done by 9:00am (just as planned) and I came around at about 10:00am. I spent a little longer in recovery because of a heart palpitation that they ordered an ekg for, but they [...]

Its good to have friends

So I was rushing around today getting the house clean and getting the kids ready to spend the night at Grandma’s and Mema’s and I noticed that there was a package on my doorstep. I haven’t ordered anything, it isn’t anyone’s birthday and all our family lives close enough to just drop something off [...]