There are some things morphine just can't fix

Well, I'm in the hospital. My surgery was yesterday and I was out for nearly eight hours but the surgeon says he took about 5 1/2 hours for the surgery. He found a couple more masses that looked just like the first thing that he took out. They are all now pretty sure that these are lymph nodes that the cancer has spread to. It was an aggressive surgery which should make my chances higher. They seem to consider the surgery successful and I met with my new endocrinologist this morning. I'm not sure what to think of him just yet. They are very concerned about my calcium because of my parathyroid glands. One was embedded in my thyroid so he took it out and re-implanted it in a muscle but he says it will take a few weeks to start working again. One was left in tact and the other two were taken out with the central lymph nodes and the pathology department was supposed to give them back to the surgeon so they could also be re-implanted but there was a miscommunication and now they are gone. They say even a 1/2 of a parathyroid gland should be enough and I have about 1 1/2 so hopefully it'll be enough. I really don't want to have to take a ton of calcium and vitamin D for the rest of my life in addition to the thyroid hormone.
My throat hurts so bad from having that breathing tube in for 8 hours. I can only eat ice chips, applesauce, and jell-o so far. I can't even drink water it's so swollen. It's weird that I need thicker stuff like applesauce to get something to go down. But everytime I try and drink water I'm afraid I'm going to aspirate it into my lungs. I definitely don't need that. It doesn't matter how much morphine I take my throat still hurts like hell.
I'm really exhausted so I'm going to try and sleep some more, just wanted to let everyone know what's going on so far.