All Good Baby!

Here is the new news. This going to be a virtual continuation of the previous post. I have been out of the hospital for a total of 5 days now and I am feeling pretty damn good considering I just had my entire body thrashed by a medical firing squad. I still have a fair amount of stiffness where the incision for my spleen is but other than that I really am not having a lot of the problems that they expected me to. I have nearly a full range of motion in my left arm. Moving my arm straight up is a problem. The doctors flat out told me I they don't think I should ever play sports again so I acted like I going to comply to that but I will stretch the boundaries a bit I know I will. Dr. Maddaus set me up with group that develops braces and stuff like that. I am going to have to get some type of plate made up to cover the huge "hole" I have on my chest. It isn't really a hole in my chest obviously but it is a huge indentation because the doctors took the ribs that hold my chest up as well. You can actually see my heart beat through it so that is why I must get something to cover it. Considering all things I am up and moving around like nothing really happened and I feel better and better everyday. I am planning on going back to the gym at the end of the week and do a very little cardio just to get the blood flowing a bit and help out my lungs. The one thing I keep hearing from everyone is that I have an unbelievable story. I don't look at it that way at all. I consider it a complete nightmare that I had no choice to deal with. Anyone else in my situation would have done the same things I did or atleast I hope they would have. Although I kind of think this way I am planning on putting together a book of some sorts with my experiences from the first and second time. Not only that I think it is really important to explain how things go before and after the situation occurs. If it can help someone else who the hell am I to hold back right? So my old roommate Bill Cooney who writes for the State Journal sports in Madison is going to help me out by spell checking and junk. I am obviously not an english major nor journalist.
Right now I am at my parents house in Janesville, Wi. For those of you who don't know where that is look at a map of Wisconsin and go just south of Madison. I went up to Madison on Saturday for the slaughtering of the Badgers by Penn State. Too bad I wasn't drinking because I would have gotten lit up like a Christmas tree after that sorry excuse for a football game. I had a blast and hung out with a ton of people who I friends with. It was crazy being the only sober person there but then again I was messing with people all night long. Monday I will be going to Milwaukee to have lunch with some family and let them check me out and make sure I am ok. It should be fun. Tuesday I am heading back to Eau Claire for a few hours then back to the cities. I am pretty much going to be trying to figure out a lot of choices I have infront of me. There are a few that will be pretty hard and I usually pan out with everything I do so I'm not too worried. I will just like to say that I am planning on staying in Minneapolis and growing into the whole adult world and just get childish on the weekends..(doubtful but who knows). I feel a lot happier up there and more content with everything in my life. I am not bashing anything in Madison at all. You just know when things are close to right and up there they seem to be. I have a huge cast of friends, a job, a ton of stuff to do. I feel like it is right.
On a side note I finally weighed myself since I had the surgery and I am at 190lbs. I went into the surgery at 200 and came out 10lbs lighter. If you ask me that is pretty scary. Looking back at when I started this whole thing I would weigh in between 225-230. That is a lot of weight but I think a lot of it is from my work outs and healthier eating habits. I didn't really shed pounds on the first couple rounds of chemo so I doubt it was that.

Anyways I will talk to you all later.
-Justin-