Hello fellow health warriors,

Was I anxious before surgery, hell yeah.

My surgery appears to have been successful, of course I have weeks of recovery before I say that conclusively. I haven't had to nebulize or wear the vest since. I'm not coughing phlegm or having that feeling I can't take a deep breath without coughing, hopefully I'm done with continuous antibiotics.

They were able to remove the BE section of my Right Upper Lobe and even leave a little bit of it. The surgery was complicated by my lung attaching to the sack is in. Instead of taking an hour, it took an hour and one half. They took a picture of the inside of my chest cavity. I could see my lung half way cut out, my rib cage, and surprisingly black lines, that I wouldn't have believed, the carbon build up that is "black lung". (It's not nearly as bad as I've seen in medical pictures, but it is real.) I went home to my family the next day, 30hrs from when I arrived.

It will take more recovery time before I can take real deep breaths and give it the real test of climbing a mountain. I'll write again and give an update when I have more to report.