In short for those who scare easily, I'm healthy!! Yay. :)
In longer form:
As my Twitter followers know, I had another surgery on my vocal chords last week. The quality of my voice had been progressively getting worse, and it was becoming more and more difficult to make actual vocal sounds in the midrange of my voice which is usually where I speak from. Swallowing also felt weird. After visiting my ENT (Dr. Koriwchak) and having the obligatory laryngoscope shoved down my throat, he informed me that there was another growth keeping my left vocal chord from vibrating. Great. (Luckily, nothing restricting my breathing pathway.)
So surgery #32 was had last Tuesday! And I must say, this was one of the more fun ones. St. Joseph's hospital has a new protocol in place for keeping blood circulating in the legs during surgery. Basically, they give you foot messaging balloon type things that go on your legs. During surgery, they inflate. And they're alot of fun.
Post-op was this week, and it turns out that I had a cluster of Papillomas growing both above and below my false chord and only a very small one on my left vocal chord. (This is a good thing.)
Given that the last three surgeries have had less than a year between them, I asked if this might indicate an increase in the cursed abnormal growth. His response was that Papillomas are irregularly irregular in growth and we should only worry and think about doing something different if they start growing in under six months.
So, I should be good for at least another year or more. (Yay!)
In other health news, I went for a physical with my pcp this week. I haven't had one in a few years, so I thought it would be a good idea. A blip came up with my blood pressure, but a second test came back at normal levels (Same happened in the hospital last week). Lab results came back, and everything's normal save my triglyceride levels which are slightly elevated but not in above average risky range. Most likely this means I should exercise a little and lose like five pounds or something.
It could also mean that my caloric intake this past week has been much higher than I've been able to burn due to my recovery from surgery diet which has included more cheeseburgers in a single week than I can ever remember eating at any other time in my life.
Note to self: When going in for a physical, make sure you do so during a time which reflects your regular diet.
