Congratulations.
Wish you the best in your healing.
Hope you can avoid lifting, I regret that I felt I had to do lifting too soon (had kids to care for) and stretched too much too soon.

Hope that you can lay really low for a couple months, man.
Best of luck.  Enjoy.
Joseph

Congrats I am glad it all worked out in the end.
Cheers,
Myles

Woot congrats bro  

congrats!!

thanks everyone.   i am doing my best to avoid lifting and using my arms at all.  my most strenuous activity is fork to mouth.

Congrats, let us know how the recovery goes. If you're bored with nothing to do, start a bunch of thought-provoking threads for us all to discuss in!

Take care!