hi colleen, starting to feel just a tiny bit better. i had nausea, headaches, just not up to par and ever so tired. really couldn't wait to eat those sour lemon candies, now, i can't stand them. its like they make me sick. so my throat did swell up from ear to ear and with pain so my dr. rx'd, methylpredisolone. so tomorrow i go to get the full body scan to see if the radioactive iodine pills got into all the leftover cancer cells. i sure hope so because i really do not want to do this all over again. at first diagnosis, it was papillary and then after the first surgery then i was told it was the aggressive kind, i know on here there was another person that said that is what they had and i mentioned that i had never heard of that, well, i sure have now along with the tall cell. then the dr. told my endocrinologist that my lost of voice is permanent, which he did not tell me after i seen him after the second surgery. i wonder why he held back telling me that. my heart is so broke for all that have wrote on mayo and all that they went through. they are so brave and strong. prayers for each and everyone.