Yes, it was a "sniff test".

My loss of left diaphrahm function is still as random as stated above. With everything else I have it is a relatively minor annoyance. But it will be keeping me from getting right side surgery until it stabilizes.

I'm 6 months post-op and generally healing very slowly. But there is progress every month and the healing appears to be speeding up now. I cannot objectively say if it is better, I do appear to be able to handle talking for longer periods of time than I could 3 months ago.