Question about recovery from minimally invasive lung surgery to remove a tumor.

[Girard442]

I had the surgery early Wednesday morning and got home Thursday afternoon. Basically doing well, although my chest feels like Sandy Koufax has been hurling fastballs at it.

One thing: I've got the little plastic incentive spirometer that I'm supposed to be using on a regular basis. Baseline number presurgery was about 2500+. Now it's around half that. Seems like an awful big loss given that a fairly small amount of tissue was taken. The good news is that I'm sleeping OK, bringing up mucus OK, and my SpO2 is around 94%.

Anyone have any experience with this?

[rampartc]

1. i had a tumor removed from my neck

and they gave me the little spirometer.

treat it like any exercise. start low snd do as many as you can a few times a day. soon you'll be doing more reps (and be back up to higher numbers.)

hope they got it all and you'll be back to normal. took 2 surgeries for mine bit ok for a while.

[Girard442]

2. TY. I am extraordinarily blessed with support. Everything's gonna be alright.

[rampartc]

3. +1

[sunflowerseed]

4. My mom had her entire left lobe removed 10 yrs ago.

She had a 30% chance of survival. She blows on hers daily.

Stick with it, its gonna get easier

[TNNurse]

5. Do your breathing exercise....you will get better.

[Girard442]

6. TY. Seeing some improvement.

Routine followup chest X-ray Monday.