bavafongoul having surgery
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Get well Matt.
I hope everything goes well for him. It is not a great feeling to know that one maybe cannot do the things, Chores and Hobbies as they used to be able to do.
Get back to stroking and posting...
Best wishes, Matt, for a successful procedure and speedy recovery. :thumbup:
best,
brian kc
best,
brian kc
Good luck to Bavafongoul and wish him the fast recovery:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
I want to express my genuine appreciation to everyone that's expressed best wishes for a successful surgery with this 4th repair
to my right shoulder that started in September 2011 wth my first rotator cuff surgery.........4 is way too many for anyone.
Last night on ESPN, it was reported that Greg Bird, an upcoming young baseball player on the Yankees will miss the entire 2016
season because of a torn labrum to his right shoulder. I chuckled to myself when I saw that. I wish my only problem was a torn labrum.
The surgery tomorrow is equivalently speaking my "Hail Mary" pass attempt. Acellular Dermal Allograph.......that what's on the menu
for tomorrow besides a rotator cuff surgery. There's every reason to believe this next surgery will fail since the prior 3 surgeries did and
the same tendons keep re-tearing. The surefire fix is to replace my right shoulder with an artificial shoulder but I am not interested in
becoming "Robo-pool player". Tomorrow's surgery uses cadaver tissue to reinforce tendons that keep tearing with prior surgeries
Life is ironic and we never know what's in store for us later today or tomorrow. Things can change unexpectedly and it's not always the
outcome we'would have expected or hoped for. But the journey still can be rewarding if along the way you make new friendships and
persevere to be as good as friend to others as they've been to you.
Thanks for indulging my antics on AZ, and most of all, for even caring what happens tomorrow. I'll catch up with you again on the other side of the rainbow.
Kindest regards,
Matt B.
to my right shoulder that started in September 2011 wth my first rotator cuff surgery.........4 is way too many for anyone.
Last night on ESPN, it was reported that Greg Bird, an upcoming young baseball player on the Yankees will miss the entire 2016
season because of a torn labrum to his right shoulder. I chuckled to myself when I saw that. I wish my only problem was a torn labrum.
The surgery tomorrow is equivalently speaking my "Hail Mary" pass attempt. Acellular Dermal Allograph.......that what's on the menu
for tomorrow besides a rotator cuff surgery. There's every reason to believe this next surgery will fail since the prior 3 surgeries did and
the same tendons keep re-tearing. The surefire fix is to replace my right shoulder with an artificial shoulder but I am not interested in
becoming "Robo-pool player". Tomorrow's surgery uses cadaver tissue to reinforce tendons that keep tearing with prior surgeries
Life is ironic and we never know what's in store for us later today or tomorrow. Things can change unexpectedly and it's not always the
outcome we'would have expected or hoped for. But the journey still can be rewarding if along the way you make new friendships and
persevere to be as good as friend to others as they've been to you.
Thanks for indulging my antics on AZ, and most of all, for even caring what happens tomorrow. I'll catch up with you again on the other side of the rainbow.
Kindest regards,
Matt B.
Ouch....I Got a Boo-Boo
I can only suppose it wasn't time for my ticket to get punched yet.....I survived surgery
I haven't any notion of how the surgery went since I never spoke with my Dr. afterwards.
My follow-up appointment with my surgeon is a week away and I'll learn how it turned out.
What I can report is that recovering from this surgery looks like it will be the most difficult
and challenging of the 5 rotator cuff surgeries I have undergone since the first in Oct '09.
Thank you for all the best wishes and prayers. it had to help since at my age having
surgery, it's not the risks of the scalpel to worry about, it's undergoing the anesthesia.
Matt B
p.s. I trust some of my fellow Azers, with whom I am known to bang heads, will read this
and perhaps they'll give me a hall pass on some on my antics....I did undergo anethesia.
"The two most prominent complications are also the most feared by elders undergoing anesthesia: postoperative delirium and postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Delirium is the most common complication and may occur in 10% to 40% or more of older patients following surgery, especially major and emergency surgeries, or in patients with significant medical problems. These patients can be confused and disoriented for several weeks after surgery, which can lead to prolonged hospitalizations and is sometimes associated with a worse overall prognosis.
By contrast, POCD is a more subtle process, and family members may or may not recognize this problem exists. True POCD is identified through neuropsychological testing. Anesthesia’s role in the development of POCD is unclear, and this is a very topical area of research in anesthesiology. “Overall, the anesthetic risks in the older population will be very much related to how healthy that person is,” says Sheila R. Barnett, MD, chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Committee on Geriatric Anesthesia."
I can only suppose it wasn't time for my ticket to get punched yet.....I survived surgery
I haven't any notion of how the surgery went since I never spoke with my Dr. afterwards.
My follow-up appointment with my surgeon is a week away and I'll learn how it turned out.
What I can report is that recovering from this surgery looks like it will be the most difficult
and challenging of the 5 rotator cuff surgeries I have undergone since the first in Oct '09.
Thank you for all the best wishes and prayers. it had to help since at my age having
surgery, it's not the risks of the scalpel to worry about, it's undergoing the anesthesia.
Matt B
p.s. I trust some of my fellow Azers, with whom I am known to bang heads, will read this
and perhaps they'll give me a hall pass on some on my antics....I did undergo anethesia.
"The two most prominent complications are also the most feared by elders undergoing anesthesia: postoperative delirium and postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Delirium is the most common complication and may occur in 10% to 40% or more of older patients following surgery, especially major and emergency surgeries, or in patients with significant medical problems. These patients can be confused and disoriented for several weeks after surgery, which can lead to prolonged hospitalizations and is sometimes associated with a worse overall prognosis.
By contrast, POCD is a more subtle process, and family members may or may not recognize this problem exists. True POCD is identified through neuropsychological testing. Anesthesia’s role in the development of POCD is unclear, and this is a very topical area of research in anesthesiology. “Overall, the anesthetic risks in the older population will be very much related to how healthy that person is,” says Sheila R. Barnett, MD, chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Committee on Geriatric Anesthesia."
Thoughts and Prayers are with you Matt. I have had 3 operations on my shoulder(all rotator cuff, mine is pretty much gone) so the next one for me is artificial joint. Just do what the doctors say, take it slow, and Lord willing, everything will work out.
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