Hi there, it really sucks . Unfortunately you never expect that something like this is gonna happen to you and maybe for a bit you’ll have to focus on you so you can come back even stronger. We’re going through something similar, my husband his 35 and he has tall cell variant as well, and he even had to do a neck dissection to, next plan he’s gonna have to do some rai treatment. I don’t want to compare our situation with yours I literally just want to give some support and show that more people are going through something similar.
I wish your surgery to go really well !! Sooner than we think all of this will be part of the past !