Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Surgery Recovery

Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since I had TOS surgery at Rush in Chicago. The first week is brutal. I spent one night in hospital, and was sent home after about 24 hours total. I had to keep a tube just below my incision for blood drainage for a week. The worst pain comes from coughing and god forbid if you have to sneeze. Ouch!
My surgeon advised me that my surgery took an extra 30 minutes because she had to clear out a lot of scar tissue on my neck (50 years of throwing baseballs) to access my scalene muscle that was also partially removed to alleviate compression on my brachial plexus area. Of course the main part of this surgery is the first rib removal. I will be picking it up from the hospital next week. Thinking of getting an artist to shave it down into the shape of a baseball bat. Anyone know how I could find someone who could do this for me?
I waited 3 weeks to post this because I wanted to make sure my recovery kept getting better. My first impression aftter the surgerey was immediate alertness and range of motion. My surgeon didn’t expect me to say that my brain fog has almost completely disappeared on our one week follow up visit, but says anything is possible. I truly believe that in addition to entrapped nerves, I also had compressed veins, arteries, or blood vessels that were given more space to breath. I will know for sure if this was my problem when I start doing baseball movements again. I plan on starting to throw and hit in about 2 weeks. I told my team that I have targeted June 8th for my return to baseball after taking last summer off for the first time in 50 years.
I can only give my experience, but after 3 weeks, I am very happy that I decided to have this surgery. I still have some pain, and have to stay as active as possible to avoid more scar tissue returning. I also have some right lung pain when breathing deeply, but that has also improved slowly but surely. I will give an update in a month or 2 when I really ramp up my activity. So far, highly recommended!