Its almost been 3 weeks since I was released from the hospital. I must say that recovery has been a very frustrating at times. My body is still very weak from lack of movement however due to my surgery wounds I’m not able to move around too much. My cough continues to lay siege on me throughout the day with my chest throat and sinuses feeling alot of discomfort and pain at night. I think i tricked myself into thinking I would be up and about in no time once I returned home.

Here’s a picture of the wound from surgery:

The 2 lower wounds are where the 2 tubes were stuck in me to drain the fluid out of my body. The big slice has staples in it before. That whole area is still very tender. I just found out yesterday from the surgeon that he had to remove a rib during surgery to work on my lung area. He also informed me after taking an xray yesterday that my lung has expanded to 50% and will most likely expand to 2/3 its normal size. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like I will ever regain my full lung function however I’m lucky to have function at all in the collapsed lung.

I’m pretty thankful with the news that things are going smoothly since I haven’t felt that great each day coughing all the time and feeling chest pains.

Tomorrow I’m heading to see the TB specialist to see how the drug treatment is going. I’m going to be taking drugs for a minimum of 6 months.

From the way my body feels it doesn’t seem like i’ll be out of the house for some time. I was looking forward to Importfest this Saturday but I need to get better 1st before doing anything.

Anyways just a brief update from me.