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   Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:57 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

   I know there are more important things going on in the world, but I just wanted to update the 10 or so people on here who cared about my health: I had my thyroid surgery last Thursday. It went well, although they kept pumping me full of pain meds after surgery, and anti-nausea meds (b/c pain meds make me nauseous) so I spent a long time in recovery. Because anti-nausea meds also make one very sleepy/groggy, so it took me hours to be awake enough to go home. And I still threw up 😑

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     Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:54 JST Jeri Dansky

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     @KydiaMusic Sounds like your first post-surgery days were pretty miserable; I'm glad you felt better later on. And, of course, I'm hoping you get good news re: the nodule.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:55 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     Once I got the last of the opioids/anti-nausea meds out of my system from the surgery and stopped feeling like a constipated (iykyk), congested slug, i felt more like myself on Monday.

     I did some light singing exercises. As far as I can tell, I haven’t lost vocal control or any notes in my main singing registers. I haven’t attempted anything beyond an E5 and so I don’t know yet if I have retained my whistle register.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:55 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     I have noticed my ability to flip between registers (yodeling technique) is diminished, but that may only be b/c I’m singing softer overall, even in chest voice.
     Also I have swelling and bruising below the incision, and it’s a bright neon yellow. It looks like someone went to town on my lower neck with a highlighter 😂

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:55 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     I haven’t got the results back yet on whether it’s cancer or not. Obviously I’m hoping for the best outcome, that the nodule is benign, because I don’t want to go through this again and have the other half of my thyroid removed.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:56 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     The care team assured me they were very careful with the breathing tube so as to not damage my vocal cords, and I was only hoarse for about 2 days. Although I think it, or the surgery itself, made my acid reflux WAY WORSE and I got GERD on top of my usual laryngopharyngeal “silent” reflux. 😩

     I had to start taking Omeprazole and famotidine again, and sleep almost in a sitting position one night, it hurt so bad.
     And that was on top of the pain inside of my throat and outside on my neck.

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     Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 (kydiamusic@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 18:44:57 JST Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

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     I’ve been resting and slowly recovering. The anti-nausea meds seemed to stay in my system for days, although it could just be the whole experience making me feel exhausted and able to doze off the moment I sat or lied down.

     I slept a lot, at least. Yesterday was the first day I made it thru without a nap.
     This is unusual for me; I normally have trouble taking naps or even sleeping more than 5-6 hours at night. I don’t even remember sleeping so much after my reconstructive ear surgery in 2017.