Winter Break

Before my surgery was scheduled we had already planned on going to see Justyn, our son at BYU Utah. The hotel was paid for and I wanted to go. I figured I'd probably rest more in a hotel where maids came in and we ate out at restaurants, right? The hardest thing was the 12 hour car trip. I couldn't help drive at all because I couldn't turn my head! I also was on pain meds. We drove straight through. The hotel was super nice and retro. Loved the decor! So nice to see Justyn. We went to movies, dinner, and bowling one night. It was funny because I couldn't do it. I never realized how much we use our neck muscles to do everything until now. Everything hurts, even putting on mascara! So to pick up a bowling ball and walk with it and try to roll it, forget it! So Justyn went and got this metal thingy that they let little kids use to roll the ball down. He had to pick up the ball and put it on the metal thingy for me so the only thing I was doing was standing there! Everyone took turns helping me. It was a lot of fun though. My follow up appointment to learn what pathology had found was coming up the next week. So while in Utah I spent a lot of time looking stuff up about thyroid cancer and there is a lot of scary stuff out there! I also spent a lot of time shopping for scarves to hide my horrible scar. I bought Mederma and found out real quick that you don't use that on an unhealed scar! Ouch. Neosporin was a lot better.