So I'm in a new forum. YeeHaw.

The healing will begin sometime between now and 3 weeks from now, or maybe sometime sooner, but in most cases not, but you're young, so we'll see, seriously, you'll be out of the woods in no time; unless you get the flu...

Anyone else feel like the the sentence above describes a lot of the answers we get from the docs at this point? Its like sitting between John Cleese and Graham Chapman on the way to see the dentist.

I am trying not to be to put off by the variety of their opinions, I'm sure it's true that everyone heals at their own rate and that we will just have to see how long it takes till I can pound that first bacon cheeseburger.

On to how I have been doing since my last Rx:

Overall I feel pretty good.

OMG-WTF-BBQ the back of my throat is raw! The mucous has been nonstop thick and yellowish. My stomach is in a constant state of to much mucous being swallowed to feel good. Sometimes I cough until its almost pure blood coming up. And to Tee things off I have on occasion witnessed stamp size pieces of dead skin come up in the sputum.

I feel like I would heal a little faster if I could give any of the above malfunctioning parts a little bit of a break from each other.

Seriously tho do I feel better than last week? the answer is yes. I made it thru to the other side of treatment. Morphine however was not beating the pain back with a big enough stick so they gave me this stuff called Dilauded.

Now I do wacky stuff that entertains my wife like fall asleep almost mid-sentence when talking to her, get my laptop set up booted up and fall asleep. Almost sold my car and bought a truck. (no I havent been driving) But the pain is greatly reduced, but I have have to take it more often.

Which opens my safety net for some night time OMG gotcha moments when it hits and you have no defense up.

In all seriousness, could someone comment on the patches of skin coming free on the serious deep and bloody coughs that happen occasionally? is that normal?