Monty, a licence is just a piece of paper, paper-clip it on to your medical and stick in in a safe plastic envelope and you'll only need to produce it occasionally.
Once you have the ARN # you can't lose it (unless stupidity, ie DWD, drugs , bank robbing{let me know} and so forth).
in otherwords , congrats fellow, welcome and enjoy the trek!!!
fly yer
off and you will make it............honest.
cheers
7g