Meeting with the surgeon

On October 4, 2016 I met with the surgeon and he explained what the procedure entails, the risks, and the aftercare. He said he did over 200 thyroid cancer surgeries a year and had a very small percentage of surgeries that needed later correction, but often did correction surgeries from other surgeons. He drew a diagram for me:

The butterfly-looking in the middle is the thyroid. The circles on the thyroid are nodules. The vertical lines up from it and the horizontal lines between represent my trachea. The two lines below with the "x"s are vocal chords, which have the possibility of being damaged in surgery. The four circles with arrows heading out are the parathyroids which are susceptible to cancer as well.  

After speaking with scheduling, I was set for surgery almost 2 weeks later.