I'm still healing from my broken rib and shoulder blade from my Thanksgiving tumble 
The one thing I would recommend is load up on Vitamin C and maybe a daily vitamin to help keep you from getting a cold/flu because coughing with broken ribs sucks.
Get well soon.
There is that coughing thing......I'm a smoker, so most of this last summer I dealt with that also. Echinacea helps a LOT!
When I felt a cough coming on, I'd sit, grab opposite shoulders and lean into my lap as hard as possible. Otherwise, the pain was unbearable....
I know, I know, all the Women in our lives say "that is nothing"....Some have probably dealt with broken ribs BECAUSE of such comments and still contend this....I can't say "yay" or "nay" to the childbirth thing. I CAN say, it is the most pain I've ever dealt with (No pain pills for me....well, except for after the first couple days I ran outta CrewCheif's "Apple Pie"...) in my life, Save a major Sinus Infection, 3 simultaneous root canals, and pissing off a good friends wife during a Divorce (long story).
Fast recovery man!
Ray
