← Return to Tighness and pressure post robotic lobectomy: Will this pass?

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@cameron02492, welcome to Mayo Connect. Of course you are scared, that's perfectly acceptable with what you've lived through. We tend to want to diminish our experiences, but any cancer diagnosis is life changing. Gratitude will come, it takes time, and it can sit alongside feeling scared too. You can feel both.
It's helpful to hear that the magnesium may be helping. How long ago was your surgery?

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I had my surgery on March 17. I went home with a new chest tube (#2) in place on 3/22 and had it in til I was readmitted with a bowel obstruction for another 5 days. I know the end result is great but I don't think I could do this again in if it came back.