I can breathe again!

I was in the hospital since Tuesday.  I got out Saturday and slept all day Sunday.  It feels awesome being able to breathe again.  Sorry I did not update but I could not in the hospital.  I am sorry to all my readers.  But the good news is I can breath again.  So I will start from the beginning.  I had a doctor's appointment Tuesday at 9:45 am.  At the doctor's appointment I was sent to the hospital for a CAT scan for my throat and my chest.  I went to the ER.  After the CAT scan I met with the doctor.  He said I had a tiny hole to breathe out of in my windpipe.  So he admitted me to the hospital.  They held me at Henry Medical Center until they could get me to Emory.  The doctor had referred me to a doctor at Emory.  He was a expert in this type of surgery.  I was transferred to Emory in Thursday night around 11:30 pm.  They did the surgery on Friday afternoon.  I was so nervous about the surgery.  I cried like three or four times about it.  I was scared about being put to sleep.  I could not eat from Thursday night until Saturday around noon.  On Friday, They put an IV in my right arm and did an X-ray on my chest.  When they took me back I so tired of waiting for surgery that I was not as scared anymore.  Nick and my mom was back in the pre-op room with me before surgery.  My dad came back there too.  They gave me something to keep me calm.  When they took me back I was so tired of waiting I was like lets go.  They went down my windpipe with a scope and camera.  The scar tissue was soft and not hard.  So they stretched my windpipe where it was trying to close.  I woke up near the end of when they had to put a tube down my throat again because my throat started spasms.  I could have sworn they said I was having a a seizer.  All I could think about was I can't drive for even longer.  But I was not awake for long because next thing I remember is I woke up in the post op room with a nurse standing over me.  They told me the surgery went well.  i was finally brought back to my room at 8:30 that night.  I think i was in post op for a couple of hours.  I could actually breathe again.  It felt awesome.  I could not eat or drink anything until the next day.  I was thirsting to death.  They gave me morphine for pain.  My stomach was hurting from coughing so hard.  My throat was hurting a lot too.  I finally got to take my medicine on Sunday.  I was so glad I got to take my medicine again on the next day.  The doctor said that I have an 70 to 80% chance that the procedure would actually work.  I hope I am in the 70 to 80 % that it will work.  My throat closing up was a 2 to 3% chance that it would close up after a Vent was in.  So I was in that 2 to 3% chance so I guess I should buy a lottery ticket now.  I am just glad I can finally breathe again.  I really hope the surgery works.  I can not go through not being able to breathe again.  I feel so much better now.  If the stretching does not work the doctor will cut open my chest and resection my Windpipe.  They will have to cut the scar tissue out because it could grow back.  The doctor said that stretching the windpipe works a lot of the time.  So I am hoping and praying that this will work.