Thank You Dr. Breuer

We had Norah’s post-op appointment with Dr. Breuer today, and she made a card for him to go with the giant bag of cookies we brought:

Dr. Breuer took off the steri-strip (like tape) that was over Norah’s incision and it doesn’t look bad at all.  He gave me some nail polish remover to get the sticky stuff off her neck…that just seems WRONG!  But…he’s the boss, so tomorrow morning I’ll be scrubbing Norah’s neck with nail polish remover.  Then we just need to keep sunscreen on it for a year to avoid having the scar “tattooed” by the sun.

So far, Norah is tolerating the replacement thyroid hormone just fine.  Her thyroid levels will be tested a month after surgery to help determine whether her dosage is correct.  She had blood drawn today to check her calcium and I’ll probably hear from Dr. Rivkees on that tomorrow.  My guess is that her calcium level is fine.  She has 5 more days of Tums and Vitamin D unless we hear otherwise.

I may have spoken too soon about her bad behavior being due to her thyroid, because she’s been driving Aliya and Adlani crazy.  We’re trying the reward system for good behavior because threats and punishments aren’t working.  This morning she was misbehaving in the car as we left for school, so I took her out of the car and told her that she’d have to stay home.  The little sh*t ran off to the back yard.  She’s fearless!  Oh well…I’m sure that will serve her well in the future.  I hope I survive it.