Julie Andrews Day?

Today I had my second appointment in Philadelphia about my voice. Really bad news: I have to have my granuloma surgically removed from my vocal chords. When the doc told me this, I went into apoplectic fear. I thought he had just announced my own Julie Andrews day. While nothing surgical is ever guaranteed, again, as with my prostate, my doc is a foremost expert in the world. He is world-famous for vocal surgery, and has done this particular thing many times. Still, I just broke down in the car coming home, after I made the appointment for the surgery. I can't believe it has come to this. I have to do a baseline analysis with his vocal team of a speech pathologist and a vocal pathologist so they can outline my recovery. I will have to remain silent for an entire week after surgery, but can expect that recovery after that will be rather quick over 4 -6 weeks. This is totally incredible to me. He says that after his vocal team does their thing, I can continue with MY team being my vocal coach in Lancaster who helped me for recover for 2 years following the intubation/bruising incident, and the speech pathologist at Hopkins who referred me to Philadelphia. I know I will dread this worse than either of my previous surgeries!!! Tomorrow is acupuncture. I will really be happy when there is more to write about in this blog than medical stuff. I have lots of profound thoughts, and even some amusing thoughts at times. It's just that this medical stuff keeps overwheling me!