Lets hope this mechanic has done his job correctly and everything is to specs. Don't be afraid to open that hood and take a good look around for mechanic forgetfulness. You paid a lot of money for your work considering your unable to perform the job due to health issues. Find out if he put in OEM parts, OR parts that will last just past the warranty. Also, change your oil maybe in about 500-1000 miles in case anything might of found it's way into the system when being worked on, plus in case any machining from new parts have fallen off parts. You should now have a truck, when is starts, makes no noise from the chain rattling for at least 60k-80k miles. Glad your truck is running again, as well as you still running to enjoy it. You sound more like the Terminator to me!
FYI:
Oh on your first question about how to tell if chain is stretch. Usually when chains get stretched, you will hear the chain rattle until the oil pressure has pushed the tensioner out enough to take up the slack in the chain. It will make this noise for maybe a couple seconds and then stop. If it doesn't stop can usually determine you have a sticky tensioner or bad oil pump or some type of obstruction in the oil flow.
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