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Bravo Chris!

Good luck man that's great.
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Darrel.

Gee Chris - you are one Fytr for sure!!!

Sounds as if you and your orthopod make a great team. Make sure you still rest LOTS in between those bouts of activity (it's all in the balance of the 2 - there speaks the physio... )

Hope your recovery continues along the same smooth path and that increased stability = decreased pain and immobility.

I love good news stories!

Wow Chris, it really is gr8. Thank god

Fantastic result.

Good luck with the rest of your recovery.

Chris,
Very glad, your surgery went well and you have had great result.

Health to you
Alex

Oh my goodness Chris - this is great news!! You are a superhero, absolutely! Your team sounds incredibly good too.

Wow, it's hard to believe the pain was so bearable for you, that is just wonderful - I hope it continues!!

I can't believe you even stopped for pizza on the way home... lol

Wishing you support thoughts and a quick smooth recovery with the best possible results!
Huge gentle hugs!!
mig

Hey Crew!
Thanks to everybody for the support. I am on day 3 at home, and other than a rotten springtime cold everything is going well. Its been cold and rainy here so my walks have been confined to the house, not very long and limited scenery..

Today looks like I will be able to go outside and take a walk, and blow the stink off. It looks like a great day to be on the golf course!! I know I know...but a guy has to have a goal..

I am still just taking some advil for the little bit of surgical pain. I still have my everyday aches and pains but those aren't going anywhere.

I do have a great team of doctors that share information and report to one another. That is very important in anybody's care. Everyone should make sure that all of their docs are on the same page and informed. The majority of my docs are younger D.O.s with my GP and Neurosurgeon being the older MD types. But they all mesh together, and seem to have actually gained something themselves from working together like this. It isn't unusual to be in an appointment with one and the next thing you know you are on a conference call with 2 or 3 of them. And yes the call includes me. And I get the same reports faxed to me that each of the doctors get after an appointment.

Thanks again!!

Great news Chris - sorry about the scenery though ;))

Your medical team sure are wonderful, lucky you. I had a good rheumy in the UK, knew where a good orthopod was to be found (found too late for my shoulder surgery, where the surgeon had put in a too large prothesis, still give me problems, he also stuffed in a huge great anchor, which causes even more problems). My gastro guy was great at his job (superb, sans doubt) but he kept trying to push 'his' rheumy colleague at me, whom I had already seen, who lost his temper, flung my X-Rays at the viewer, why? Cause he had a pvt patient waiting outside, who in fact should not have been there (but in the pvt hhospital, not HNS!) Had a lovely optho consultant, an exceptional GP (whom I'd had to change to, huzzah for the find) after my initial GP at new address/part of the UK, refused to arrange consultations for rheumy nor for a gastro - let alone for owt else. So, turns out I had pre-cancer polyp's and 'needed' to see a rheumy. None of anyone liaised with theh other. One had to get on with it on one's own

As for France. have already posted on the dire, but dire gastro histoire - lucky I survived the anaesthetic with all that liquid in my gut. And still no one confers with the other. This in spite of a 'paper' by one rehumatologist that this is a desired point to be aimed for. So I mentioned this 'point' to 'the' prof, who came back with: 'You are not serious, 'we' have No time for that.' Great response, not.

GP here does not understand that different surgeons perform different specialisms: no, shoulder does not 'do' wrist, nor yet elbow, and so it goes on. The 'one' surgeon cures all mentaliaty aint acceptable! 'Smile'.

Dunno 'what' I'd do in yr like situation, your amazing good fortune just aint available over here, well, not on the health system in my region of France anyways. Though, I do have high hopes for the hospitals in Tink's region: both have excellent reputations and very good websites. I gotta move I reckon...<LOL>

Go well Chris. Am *Delighted for you. And again, congrats to your wonderful medical team and to you - take care - not 'too' much scenery all at once!

sounds like you're doing good, considering. hope the weather turns nice so don't have to spend time cooped up in the house, with our long cold winters, i know what that's like, though we do have a big bay window overlooking the gardens in the backyard, so even inside, our scenery isn't too bad. maybe put up a bird feeder, something to look at when inside, just a thought, though being out of doors is always preferable. hope to hear you're back to golf soon!