For those who don't keep up. In 2007 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had a massive surgery on my neck followed by a few rounds of radiation.

They didn't kill the cancer at that point and have been watching the cancer that was laying dormant with scans every 6 months since 2010 when I had my last radiation treatment.

There's a nodule that is cancerous growing in my neck so they want to remove it and possibly do another round of radiation.

This surgery -should- be significantly smaller than the last one but it's still a major surgery on my neck. We'll know how large the surgery will be after I get biopsies done on the lymphnodes on either side of my neck below my ears to see if they're cancerous or just fatties. The doctor assumes they're just fatties cause it's commons for those lymphnodes to be large even in healthy people.

So surgery date is September 2nd. I am hoping for only 1 night in the hospital as apposed to the 4 nights I spent after the first surgery. It was a long healing process for that surgery, and I'm optimistic this one won't be nearly as bad.