Wednesday, September 6th, 2017 Shayne went into DRMC at 10:30am to gown up and get that dreaded thyroid tumor taken out. It was one of the best moments of our lives. Weird to say, I know, but we all had a great sense of relief knowing that it would soon be out of her body and would no longer be of any harm or future danger to her. I met She and Konnor at the hospital and we were taken back and no longer had they given Shayne a gown and told her to change than her nurse came by to talk to us and I found out that it was Jaimie, a friend of mine that use to work at Red Rock Canyon School with me and Joel. It was another testament that everything was going to be just fine. Shayne had a darling phlebotomist and about an hour after they got her all hooked up with an IV the OR assistant came and got Shayne to take her to the Operating Room. He wasn't very good at navigating her bed. He ran into every corner. It was pretty funny. Then Konnor and I went to the cafeteria to eat and then came back and waited for a little while. The surgery took an hour and a half but was scheduled for 3 just in case they needed to go in and take the other side out after they had biopsied the one side to see if there was any cancer. Luckily there wasn't any so right at the 1 1/2 hour mark Dr. Kent Gardner, the world's best ENT, came out to tell us that everything went perfectly and that they were just finishing up with her and as soon as she came out of the anesthesia we would be able to see her.
On Thursday the 17th, I went with Shayne to her follow up appointment at Dr. Gardner's. He said that it looked great and that she could take the rest of the glue off by Wednesday. She will need to go in to get some lab work done in a couple weeks to see where all of her levels are to know what medication is needed. But for now she is feeling great and didn't have a lot of problems. She had to sleep at incline for a week and had a sore throat from the tube they put down there. It was bigger that the usual one that they put in people because it has to give off signals when they get to close to her vocal chords. But she is doing great. We are extremely blessed. I know that in a couple weeks from now she will be able to start working out again and we able to get back to her old self and finally regain some energy that has be long lost. We are so grateful to Dr. Gardner, for today's technology and for the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Here is her name right above the bottom blue line. The SY is her. While we were waiting, our good friend Wendy Utley came out to see us. She was the nurse in the room while Shayne was being operated on. She said that it hit a little to close to home since Shayne was like a daughter to her. Later Shayne said that she talked to Wendy before she went under and she said that it was another Tender Mercy from the Lord, knowing that he was watching over her. Knowing that Wendy was right there in the room with her when her real mom couldn't be gave her peace.
In Post-Op she was fine. All smiles. We found out the next day that she is allergic to iodine. See all that orange? Yeah, she broke out in a rash everywhere that it was.
On Thursday the 17th, I went with Shayne to her follow up appointment at Dr. Gardner's. He said that it looked great and that she could take the rest of the glue off by Wednesday. She will need to go in to get some lab work done in a couple weeks to see where all of her levels are to know what medication is needed. But for now she is feeling great and didn't have a lot of problems. She had to sleep at incline for a week and had a sore throat from the tube they put down there. It was bigger that the usual one that they put in people because it has to give off signals when they get to close to her vocal chords. But she is doing great. We are extremely blessed. I know that in a couple weeks from now she will be able to start working out again and we able to get back to her old self and finally regain some energy that has be long lost. We are so grateful to Dr. Gardner, for today's technology and for the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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