I think the surgeries worked out well, considering the size of the ribs and complications/abnormalities I had. I anticipate a redo just to clean up scar tissue. I'll never be the same, but I had already reached that point before surgeries.

The hardest thing for me is to keep pacing myself. I want to do more - lift more, type more, clean more. But More is bad and does no good for me physically. Staying out of pain is a full time job that most of my family still doesn't 'get'.