The weekend of 14th and 15th September - days 2 and 3 post-op

I had noticed a numb patch around my sternum. The oncall weekend consultant thought it was probably just due to the local anaesthesia and that the nerves were still slightly numb and stretched and that this would go.

Here is a YouTube Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVcMgpu_Pfw

I had a visit on day one post surgery and also on both weekend days from a very lovely lady who I had connected to on Facebook and who gave me a lovely card and spent time with me and gave me a lot of support whilst I was in hospital as I was far too far away from friends and family. This was very kind of  her and I was so grateful to have a visitor. Also the visiting hours are not overly long which makes a huge difference as I was particularly fatigued - particularly on day 3 post-operative and driftd in and out of sleep.

Since day two post op I had also been using a spirometer as a a breathing exercise to inhale and move three different colour balls to the top - red was easiest to move, yellow somewhere in the middle and blue was much harder. I was to do this a few times a day every day. Coughing at this point was still very painful. I also had to do gliding stretches so that too much scar tissue didn't form or fascia stick to my healing wound.

Below are pictures of me at this stage and my spirometer