So, when I fell off the goblin, the first thought that went through my mind (and Jons too) was, "Oh no, I can't get hurt or I can't get surgery!". Yes, I got to have another surgery this year! To make a long, complicated story short, I have Hyperparathyroid Disease. One of your parathyroid glands (normally the size of a grain of rice) starts freaking out and turns into a tumor. It's a hormonal tumor, not a cancer one, thank goodness! But it causes high calcium in your blood from high hormone levels that makes you not feel very good. There is a Parathyroid Expert in Tampa, Florida and I was lucky enough to be able to go to him right after we got back from Utah. We got there the day before surgery and walked around the hotel . . .
The morning of surgery. I was so happy to be there! Crazy huh?
Jon told Dr. Norman not to mess up my "beautiful neckline". :) I had a scan done of my neck to find the tumor before the operation. Dr. Norman came in after and said, "It's a big tumor day!" Mine was half as big as one side of my thyroid, directly behind it. It was about 1 inch long and 1/2 " wide (I even got a picture of it to take home with me!). He said he guesses it's 12-15 years old.
Don't really remember this one either . . . Me with an ice pack around my neck and Dr. Norman - my hero!
The next day we decided drive to Orlando to go to the Epcot Center. We had gone there years ago on a business trip . . . ON the Disney Resort grounds and didn't go, so we had to this time!
Jon at the Canadian Village (we got chocolate with Maple Crunch - yummo!)
We also rode the ferry while eating Limone gelato and took this picture of the French village where we ended up having a FAB dinner that night.
Any guesses where this was? Japan had the COOLest store out of the whole resort. Jon could have gone crazy in there. I finally had to sit down while he continued shopping, not that that is anything new!
The Japanese koi pond and village. Collin is obsessed with Japan and manga and anime right now, so it was sad seeing all these things the kids would have loved and not having them with us.
Looking back I probably over did the first day post-op, but after sleeping for 12 hours (could have slept for about 20), we drove to Honeymoon Beach, since, you know, after being married for 16 years, we are still on our honeymoon. It was so beautiful and Jon was entranced.
Beauty!!
It was hard to come back to the real world after this scenery! Although I am still healing, the recovery has been about 500 times better than that darn gall bladder removal! Akshee, now that I have that tumor out of my neck, it might just be my year! 
4 comments:
Man- what a crummy way to vacation in Florida!!!! I hope you are doing better already!
On the contrary!! We keep saying what a great, although short, vacation it was. We can't wait to go back.
Glad you made the most of Florida! We went there last year, and I must say, it was not my favorite place. But, probably going there sans kid(s) would make it a bit more enjoyable!
I'm so glad that you finally have figured out what's been going on all these years and really hope you'll start getting normal energy levels soon.
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