How is your recovery going OP? Is it painful to laugh?
Pectus excavatum runs in my family. Two of my four brothers had this surgery to prevent their chest from pressing on their heart and lungs. They are both much happier now and more confident at the pool and in general (both were made fun of endlessly in school). I have pectus carinatum myself aka pigeon chest. I was also made fun of growing up but as I got older and added some chest muscle, it was less noticeable and looked like I had bigger pecs than I did!
Some friendly advice..
Stay on top of your lung blower thing. One of them wasn’t diligent about doing it everyday and paid the price in pain later.
When you go home make sure you are taking your stool softener regularly. The insane amount of pain meds they have you on are going to plug you up good. The same brother that neglected the lung capacity tester also didn’t go #2 for 3 weeks after only eating gold fish and cinnamon toast waffles. When he finally did we all knew it because of the guttural screams echoing through our two story home.
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How is your recovery going OP? Is it painful to laugh?
Pectus excavatum runs in my family. Two of my four brothers had this surgery to prevent their chest from pressing on their heart and lungs. They are both much happier now and more confident at the pool and in general (both were made fun of endlessly in school). I have pectus carinatum myself aka pigeon chest. I was also made fun of growing up but as I got older and added some chest muscle, it was less noticeable and looked like I had bigger pecs than I did!
Some friendly advice..
Stay on top of your lung blower thing. One of them wasn’t diligent about doing it everyday and paid the price in pain later.
When you go home make sure you are taking your stool softener regularly. The insane amount of pain meds they have you on are going to plug you up good. The same brother that neglected the lung capacity tester also didn’t go #2 for 3 weeks after only eating gold fish and cinnamon toast waffles. When he finally did we all knew it because of the guttural screams echoing through our two story home.
Good luck in recovery man!
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