Update on my surgery

I’m back in the hospital. They did surgery Monday to debride the ”sough” (sluff—dead cells)that has formed on the juncture on the airways between the new lung and the old body, which has been blocking my air intake, causing coughing and labored breathing with light exercise.  The surgeon goes  down my nose and throat with a breathing tube, camera tube, suction tube and the slice and dice interment—pretty amazing. He took out a lot of slough, stretched the airway, but ran into a pocket of infection. So they held me, put me on several IVs of antibiotics, and will take another shot Thursday at more debridement. I have been back on O2 since the surgery, but the RT said that’s normal, as it stirs up stuff tha blocks air intake to the sacks in the lung.  My other numbers are good. I asked the surgeon for a prognosis and he said, “Too early to tell.” The pulmonologist said slough buildup “wasn’t super common or super uncommon. In many cases we’ve seen, the debridement fixes it. Ewe did have a case where the slough was too extensive and the patient died. So I don’t know at this point. Feel okay, just took a walk and did fine, so we shall see. More when I can. ~Bob