Yep, surgery was a success. He cleaned out right carotid completely, slitting it all the way open the length of it then sutured it back up, plus glued it.. Not a typo... yes, glued it with 'skin glue', then glued the incision closed, only had one stitch to hold the drain tube in and he removed that with the drain tube this morning. They eventually got all the rest of the tubes out and released me, just got home. Thank you all for the best wishes and I'll get back to business once i have some recovery time. I do notice a reduction in coherence thru typing on the left side again, not typing or having to retype almost every word, so there was some stroke interference, probably from the operation.