Thank you both so much for responding to my post and for the encouraging words. I also wanted to mention that this past November (the 21st to be exact) I had a partial left lung removal. While I was having my MRV's done for the TOS the doctor found a mass on my lung. I am a cancer survivor of 8 years now and it was suspected that the mass was the cancer returning. I was very blessed as the mass was not cancer!!! The surgeon called it a thoracotomy removal of partial lung (which is the name of the type of incision). My Vascular Surgeon stated that particular surgery is 100 times worse than the rib resection. I can only hope that he is correct and that I will be bouncing back to normal as quick as I did from that (I was back to running 3 weeks post surgery)!