Things are slowly getting better. A lot of the swelling is down and there's less pain -- I can do a light cough now with only moderate pain. Some motions really set off a flood of pain, but you learn what those motions are really fast and avoid them. I still don't feel any improvement on my breathing, but it's only been 9 days, so no worries. I restarted my mtx today, so that should take away some of the normal wegs pain and I'm going to start tapering off the oxycodone and replacing it with hydrocodone, then, eventually, my normal tramadol, which is about the same effectiveness as the hydrocodone (50mg vs 325/7.5mg). Just this much typing causes a lot of back pain around the incision area, so more later.
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