One more thing that I think helped me was I helped my wife with a paper route for a month she took it for extra money while I was off It was alot of in and out the car but I got to stop and rest on the way to next stops so I was not on my feet very long at a time and was throwing with my weak arm my docs were quite suprised when I told them I wanted to go back to work but also said I was doing great I still have peg tube do about 1500 calories through it in am and bedtime