Her pain threshold is so high that what she would rate a 4 on a 1-10 scale would cripple you and me. She only flinched once during the removal. It's a result of a left and right radical dissection of the neck to cure thyroid cancer back in 1960, when she was 17. They don't do that anymore, but the radioactive seeds and chemotherapy now used wasn't around back then, and so the knife. Her last two cancers -- a lumpectomy and basal skin carcinoma -- were done with minimally invasive procedures and thank goodness cancer treatments have come as far as they have!

CAT scan this morning.