I'm going to post this not to scare you but to give you information. One year ago my daughter's best friend had part of her thyroid removed, the cells examined and then it was decided to remove the rest of it a week later due to iffy cells. Vivian was kept overnight the second time so they could monitor her since she had problems with her throat swelling the week before. Family and friends left by nine that evening, two hours later they got a phone call that she had to be crash carted, her throat had swollen shut and shut down her airway. No one seems to know exactly how long she was without oxygen, Viv lingered for three weeks and then passed on the second anniversary of my daughter's death. She left behind three small children and hubby, she was twenty-eight years old and renovating her first home, life was good for them. All because the anethesiologist choose not to put her on a heart monitor, the lawsuits are pending but this hospital screwed up big time, and in the end, no cancer cells. Make sure you are monitored for the first 24 hours, Vivian was an awesome woman, beautiful, and vivacious, this didn't need to happen, another case of being your own advocate and having family to make demands too. My daughter died because Tacoma General misdiagnosed her and wouldn't admit they were over their heads and two years later Vivian, same hospital, two young women that didn't need to die. I remember Vivian coming into Angie's room, bursting into tears and saying "Oh Angela, what have they done to you?" We moved my girl to the University of Washington medical center and they had her off the ventilator in four days and on the road to recovery. She went into septic shock the day I was to fly her home to us for rehab, her liver couldn't come back from the second shock and we lost her twenty one days later. God I miss my little hippie chick, thank god we have her little one to raise or I don't know where my head would have gone. I am rambling now, just want you to know you need to watch for swelling and don't go home if you have any, make them watch you!