bavafongoul having surgery

Matt...I sympathize with you my friend! I hope everything turns out right this time, and you'll be back to playing with Tommy in no time! :thumbup: Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery!

Scott Lee
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Sounds like you're on your way to recovery. I'm sure they wouldn't have sent you home if there were any issues at this point.

...I was curious though - did you consider asking the doctor to use some currently legal ivory in the process if they could, you know, before Jerry's rule takes effect ? I know you're wild about the stuff.

Get well soon.
Tony C



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."
 
Met Matt once when I still lived there. Super nice guy. Hope he can keep playing. Good luck bud!


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Met Matt once when I still lived there. Super nice guy. Hope he can keep playing. Good luck bud!


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Surgery Update

Saw my surgeon today........staples removed. ......no physical therapy for another 8 days. Just rest and ice treatment at home, and arm is to remain motionless in this awful shoulder abduction harness, except for physical therapy, for the next 4 weeks 24hrs/day. Physical therapy is to treat for pain & swelling, ice treatment, electrical stimulation but there is absolutely no weights or resistance allowed, no pendulum exercise or pulleys or bands, and no extension or rotation of the arm or shoulder for the first 12 physical therapies.

We went over the surgery and he did a lot of excising tendons and atrophied muscle, glenohumeral joint, repaired full thickness tears in the supraspinatus and subscapularis tendons, anterior labrum resection, 5 BioComposite SwiveLock anchors were used to hold the steel sutures in place, subacromial debridement,......the darn report just goes on for two entire pages.

Bottomline is way too soon to tell........surgeon has me advancing at glacier like speed post surgery but he was very frank today.......no more golf.....basketball..........it's not in the cards.......swimming is another no no.......there is so little remaining tendons and muscle after 4 surgeries that there's nothing much left to work with but pool playing should be in my future......just further away than I was anticipating.......it might not be til summer.......it all depends on how I progress with physical therapy which is being scheduled with a cautious eye.


"OBLADI.......OBLADA"


Matt B.
 
Hoping therapy goes well and you're back to a table soon!

(edit) And may you get a therapist who is kind to the eyes...;)
 
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