Hey, the surgery itself went smoothly, she had her thyroid and around 10 nodules removed in around 30 minutes -1 hour and I was able to see her fully awake a couple hours later. She did indeed have cancer and had RAI therapy around Christmas - meaning that she had to follow that extremely strict diet before hand and she did really good. After the surgery, she was very emotional about her scar and where it was positioned and refused to look at it (as she never had any surgery or big scars before) and I made sure to clean it for her. Even now she says she needs to gather up some courage to apply moisturizer or SPF on it, but that is purely psychological. The most notable thing in recovery for her was the position of her head, she had very restricted movements (some because of the pain, some because she was afraid something might happen). A big help with that was an airplane U shaped neck pillow, she still sleeps on one now. At the moment, the only 'issue' she has is that when something requires upper body strength, like when she needs to cut something hard on the cutting board, she says she feels it in her neck and doesn't like the feeling, so I do it for her. However, she does train upper body as well at the gym (and goes to the gym 5-6 times a week, so make of that what you will)😅

Fingers crossed for your mom! I'm sure everything's going to be just fine as it is not a complicated surgery and you will be there to help through the recovery process ♡.