Signing off for a while

[TheTree]

Hi

I am going under the knife at 13:30 on Monday and it is expected that I will be in hospital for about a week if all goes well.

I have been poked, prodded, scanned while glowing and had an ECG, good news is the only cancer is in my thyroid and on one lymph node and my mastoid muscle.

Other good news is that the surgeon doesn't expect that I will need to go to ICU and he will do his best to preserve my 11th Cranial nerve and as much of my mastoid muscle as he can.

Once I am able I will join the fray here once again :D

Steve

[disco gazza]

Good luck with the op.
Hope all goes well for you.

cheers

[Mick_Marsh]

Our best wishes are with you.
A session with Dr Frankenstein and Nurse Vampira is not the most enjoyable thing to do.

[incisor]

as above

hope all goes well and your back here before too long...

[daf11e]

And again Steve...God speed your recovery!

[Keithy P38]

Good luck and hope everything goes well mate!

[benji]

Best of luck for tomorrow.
It sounds like a good prognosis; take it easy.

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[Rextheute]

Mate I feel for you .
We are presently on a road trip to Sydney to see my wife's specialist .

To use my wife's words
"cancer is a ****er , but it can be beaten , hate it back" .

Good Luck , trust the treatment ,stay strong .

[TheTree]

Mate I feel for you .
We are presently on a road trip to Sydney to see my wife's specialist .

To use my wife's words
"cancer is a ****er , but it can be beaten , hate it back" .

Good Luck , trust the treatment ,stay strong .

Mate

All the best for you and your wife as well. Luckily for me thyroid cancer is one of the least aggressive and has remission rates around 95%

Steve

[Rextheute]

Cheers !
It's a six monthly thing , she had an op in 2012 - for her birthday she got breast cancer . It's still there but manageable , so we check frequently ,any changes .
Jump on it .

Hug your family and laugh with your friends .
Life is for living , give it your best shot

[mtb_gary]

Hi

I am going under the knife at 13:30 on Monday and it is expected that I will be in hospital for about a week if all goes well.

I have been poked, prodded, scanned while glowing and had an ECG, good news is the only cancer is in my thyroid and on one lymph node and my mastoid muscle.

Other good news is that the surgeon doesn't expect that I will need to go to ICU and he will do his best to preserve my 11th Cranial nerve and as much of my mastoid muscle as he can.

Once I am able I will join the fray here once again :D

Steve

Best wishes Steve....here's hoping for a speedy recovery

[87County]

All the best Steve

[Grumbles]

Good luck!

[p38arover]

Steve, all the very best for the upcoming surgery. I hope you'll be back soon. If you are at Macquarie University Hospital, they have Internet at each bed.

[TheTree]

Steve, all the very best for the upcoming surgery. I hope you'll be back soon. If you are at Macquarie University Hospital, they have Internet at each bed.

Thanks Ron

I am at the Royal Newcastle Centre which is a state of the art facility, a part of John Hunter Hospital. My surgeon Daron Cope Dr Daron Harold Cope profile | Olive Institute Australia (http://oliveinstituteaustralia.com/drdaroncope/) (who is reputed to be one of the best ENT surgeons around) seems to prefer that to Newcastle Private and all the docs don't like either of the Gosford Hospitals very much at all.

I have the NBN at home and can connect with Telstra Air so I suspect once I recover a little I will be back online.

It may be a little longer before I get my head back under the bonnet of the beast though !

Regards
Steve

[DT-P38]

BEst Wishes for a speedy recover

[d2dave]

Steve. Good luck for tomorrow. Hopefully all goes well and you have a speedy recovery and are soon back here talking Landies.

[finallyrangie]

Good luck Steve, hope it all goes well and you are fit to be cursing land Rover in the very near future

[Don 130]

All the very best with the procedure and recovery afterwards,
Don.

[Hoges]

Been away for a while and just got the news. Sincerely hope it all went well for you Steve. Thumbs up!
Hoges

[p38arover]

I am at the Royal Newcastle Centre which is a state of the art facility, a part of John Hunter Hospital. My surgeon Daron Cope Dr Daron Harold Cope profile | Olive Institute Australia (http://oliveinstituteaustralia.com/drdaroncope/) (who is reputed to be one of the best ENT surgeons around) seems to prefer that to Newcastle Private and all the docs don't like either of the Gosford Hospitals very much at all.


Well, you won't get my daughter who is an RN in ICU at the Mater - but you might at John Hunter where she is a Final Year Med Student.

[Sitec]

Hope it all goes well! Also hope you have plenty of reading material! People watching is always a good time passer too! :)

[davidsonsm]

Hope all went well Steve. Here's to a speedy recovery.

[TheTree]

Hi

Well 10 days instead of 5 to 7 and I am back home.

Turns our I had a parathyroid adenoma as well, a hyperactive gland. You have 4 of these and they control the calcium levels in your blood so when they removed the hyperactive one my calcium levels crashed because the others had gone to sleep.

Proper calcium levels are essential for heart function, so they have me on calcium tablets and took blood readings twice a day. They were not going to let me out until they were at least 2.0 .. 2.55 is ideal.

So it need to be monitored now twice a week until the remaining glands wake up enough to stabilise things.

The cancerous nodules and the thyroid are all gone and I have a nice scar from behind my right ear down the one around my neck !

Rest and recuperation is in order now

Thanks for all the messages of support :D

Steve

[finallyrangie]

Glad you are back home and things are improving, hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.

You have had your hiccup, now for the speedy recovery

[Scouse]

Good to see you back Steve.

[daf11e]

Great news......welcome back.

Jim

[mtb_gary]

Welcome back Steve. I'm sure you're relieved and pleased to be home. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

[d2dave]

Good to see you are now back home and hoping for a speedy recovery.

[davidsonsm]

When can you drive. P38's are known to be helpful for health. Its proven.

[p38arover]

Glad to hear you are on the up, Steve. Welcome back.

[Pierre]

Cath & I pass on our best wishes for your speedy return to robust health. After the last 6 months having our own little battles with cancer, it feels great to come out the end.


Stay strong.


Pete