Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Surgery Tomorrow

 I shall be having a parathyroid removed tomorrow at University of Virginia hospital. Will be going over this evening to avoid freezing fog.  So, I shall be out of commission for awhile.

Barkley Rosser

11 comments:

Sandwichman said...

Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery, Barkley!

Anonymous said...

You will be in my thought and hopes. Please be well.

Wallfly said...

Heal quickly and enjoyably!

Not Trampis said...

wow Barkes I have no idea of what that is but I do hope everything goes well

rosserjb@jmu.edu said...

I am home, with the surgery successful. I am also wacked out on pain meds. I also will be limited in my activities doe the next several days, not able to teach as surgery was near vocal chords, so I cannot speak much.

I am slso breaking the advice of my wife, Marina, by posting this. She has wisely noted given how out of it I am I should not be posting, and mostly I am not commenting on blogs. But given kind thoughts expressed here, I shall break her advice to let you all know the outcome as of now, and hopefully I have not bungled things up.

NT,

One has four parathyroids that are near the thyroid, and thus near vocal chords. They control calcium in the body, and mine was out of whack, which is bad for kidneys and strokes and other stuff. Removal was needed.

Anonymous said...

My Dad had that done...best wishes on a speedy recovery.

Anonymous said...

i had thyroid removed in 2014.... large mass small risk indicated.

turned out clean of cancer. the risk reward of leaving half was they would go in again and take it all if the biopsy was positive.

they left the para's

i am doing fine on thyroid hormone replacement.

rest voice a few days shpuld be okay,

best wu=ishes

Not Trampis said...

Thanks Barkes,

As a veteran of around 5 operations get well quick.

Peter Dorman said...

Just saw this, Barkley. Good to hear it went OK. You and Marina have been through a lot lately.

kevin quinn said...

Get well soon, Barkley. Your "voice" on the page is fine.

rosserjb@jmu.edu said...

I am recovering, not all the way back to OK. But, thanks to you all wishing me the best.