Just Checking In With You – A Sundance Update

Hello Everybody!

It’s good to see you all again. I’m sorry I have not been able to get on this board but just once and just to read some PM’s that I received. It’s been very hard to sit up and type at a keyboard.

I can sum it up in one word, Ladies and Gentlemen – PAIN!

My home email keeps notifying me of PMs on the site, so I logged in today and saw all the posts opened for me and everybody’s concern, so I just wanted to take a minute and talk with you so you would know I’m alive and trying to do better each day, but I’m going to need some more time.

I took a pretty good “Lick” with the surgery and it has not been easy during the recovery so far. They “roughed me up” pretty good there.

I’ve been short of breath and the pain has been bad enough as the incsions were in the right spots to make it uncomfortable to be sitting or even laying for long. The pain meds I’m on knock off some of the rough edges, but safe to say, I’ve got aways to go still – I hope the next couple of weeks will see some improvement.

We did an X-ray on my lungs and there are no leaks, and so we’ve been trying to keep my lungs expanded. I have to walk on a treadmill several times a day. I also do breathing exercises with a spirometer, which you suck on and measures your lung capacity – I’m doing a little better there. Sometimes, I get a breathing treatment if I need it with some Albuterol.

We meet back with the surgeon next week or the week after to go over everything and see how I’m doing. I’ll also be meeting with the Public Relations manager there for an interview on the Da Vinci surgery. I’ll see if there will be a link to it,or if I can get a copy of it and will post it.

Thank you all for your patience and for your caring thoughts and prayers. I’m going to try and answer all the PMs that were sent.

As soon as I get some more information and feel better, I’ll send up another post with the whole story. I still may not be on too much, but will try to check in and see what’s going on. Pain is making it difficult to concentrate, but I’m glad I could get this update out to you today.

Thanks for caring about me - sure does help.

You guys take care until we speak again and thank you, Everybody from the bottom of my heart

-Craig