Wait!!!
You can do 4 effin surgeries???
Wow!
This is my 2nd. If I don’t get relief this time I quit.
I’ll deal with this again several years from now.
I got things to do and I’ll just figure out how to work around it.
I did a quick web search if the author.
Seems he is a real person and the phone number matches up.
I’m gonna go take my 6 mile walk. It’s 6:30am and I’m bored
Might as well get up.
I’ll check back as I walk.
My problem with that right arm and shoulder was:
1. Auto accident 1973; screw driven from what was left of the elbow to the wrist while the rest of the assembly was held in place with wires.
2. Everything in the arm worked rather smoothly with the exception that I couldn’t oscillate my wrist so my writing suffered.
3. A deep melanoma was discovered in that right shoulder and aggressive surgery was done in order to get all the cancer. Unfortunately in so doing the surgeon nicked my rotator cuff.
4. Surgery was ordered and completed in an attempt to repair the cuff. It failed.
5. A second surgery was ordered and completed and it too failed.
6. Finally a professor at the University of Florida took an interest and performed a total shoulder replacement ‘in reverse’ and that was three years ago and no problems that I can’t live with.
The medical lesson here is that when the patient is over sixty, attempting to repair a rotator cuff is like trying to join two wet ends of a piece of toilet paper....it won’t work.
Shoulder replacement is the answer.