Hi their thanks for all the best wishes, in reply to your question unfortunately my incision will be a medial/full sternotomy so I am assuming my recovery will be a bit longer then yours, could I ask you how long did it take for u to get back on your feet and pain free? I have a 2.5 yr old and a 3.5 year old but thankfully the hospital is only 15 min away but I still worry for them but I guess that what mums are for to worry hahaha how has you MG been since operation?

Look forward to hearing from you soon, take care

Melissa )

Honestly I have still been struggling off and on. Most of the time worse than before the surgery, but I did have a couple of really good days. That was about 3 weeks after surgery. The pain was definitely tolerable after 3 weeks. Took to about 6 weeks out for my rib cage to stop hurting. I had plasma before surgery and keep trying to get them to do IVIG since. I think it would really help me feel better. Just in a bad rutt right now. So I guess you could say I am still trying to recover. Well I hope all goes well with you. I am one of the few to have had the transcervical thymectomy. So others would prolly be able to give you a much better timeline. Just remember no lifting after surgery. I know that will be very hard to do with the ages of your lil ones. Keep us posted and good luck with everything.

just remember to do the things like reading ,games etc that will let you sit with them. hopefully you have some help lined up for the kids and house stuff. i would let the kids help me-even though it wasn't much help but they can fold laundry with you and dust my kids just needed to be mommys helpers so i took advantage while i could a few yrs later those tactics didn't work it was do you need anything mom-if not i'll see you later