TweetDay 5:

Everything is continuing to improve day by day. I didn't need to take anything at all for pain today. Most of the soreness is only noticeable after moving around quite a bit. I'm getting mild itchy and tingling feelings around my chest, which they said was normal due to the nerves. My energy levels seem to be coming back and I'm able to move around more through out the day. The nurse said I may get to a point where I feel perfectly fine, but still need to try and take it easy so everything can heal 100%.

After all this time in the vest I'm very ready to take it off, but still a day or so until I can. I have to wear the vest for almost a week straight (no showers) and then 23 hours a day for the next 3 weeks. I'm going to be looking forward to that one hour a day without it.... And my first shower lol.