I'm home and recovering! I currently have 2 large incisions across my chest, and 4 "bulbs" with tubes coiled inside my chest cavity, coming out by my ribcage to help drain my surgery sites. Had a rough night after surgery, but things are improving. I have showered a couple times now, and trying to stay awake more and more, doing exercises to move the drainage. (And I have more pictures if people want to see but I didn't want to gross anyone out.) My aunt is taking amazing care of me, and if we can get the bulbs down to 1 oz of fluid in 24 hours, I can get them taken out--fingers crossed!

I'll have an appointment on Monday with the surgeon to follow up and hopefully get my pathology results.

Thank you to everyone who's been reaching out and for all your well wishes.