Post Op wait for Hubby

Amy is currently out of surgery and in the recovery room. They should be bringing her up to her room shortly - I'm currently there. Both the Doctor and the Anesthesiologist stated everything went well. The doc basically said a classic surgery. She has a nice thin neck that works well for this type of operation, so only a small incision was necessary. She will have a raspy voice for a few days and maybe some tenderness and slight soar throat from everything. They will immediately start up synthetic hormones to replace the ones produced by the thyroid - this even though the natural occurring ones stay in the blood for 2 weeks or so. The big emotional roller coaster is to follow in a few weeks when they need take her off the hormones and check to make sure they isn't any thyroid tissue left and then give her the radio-active iodine. After that, they will set her up on a regime of synthetic hormones for ever. But, who knows maybe stem cell research will some day allow us to recreate a thyroid - wouldn't that be cool. Anyway, all for now.
Next post should be from Amy.