I will echo many of the comments made above. See my blog (Journey To Cancer Free --Day Zero) in the OCF Cancer Blogs forum here to get a "real time" account of my MRND and recovery. Today I have some shoulder and neck tenderness and tightness, and perhaps some weakness of my shoulders when doing something over my head, but otherwise things are fine. The "turkey neck" has pretty much gone away, and I am the only one who notices the scar on my neck.

Yesterday I played 18 holes of golf in the morning, spent the rest of the day at work, then played 9 more holes with my wife, so I am not really very disabled. ;-) I can still get home in 2 on most par 5's.

The surgery is really the easiest part of treatment. While I really, really understand the fear, take heart!!!