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Re: Surgery Thursday
Posted By: Tom R
Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2008, at 7:01 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Surgery Thursday (SueBW)
Sue,
Thanks for the encouragement to speak up. I'll make sure I let him know that I'd prefer if he'd simply note other areas in need of repair or attention, take care of any meniscus trouble, and we can move on from there. He tends to be a conservative OS so I think he won't push back too much. He feels that less is more, and, frankly, I have no desire to go through eight weeks or so on crutches. I've been active lately and would like to stay on that path if I can help it.
Thanks again,
Tom
> Tom,
> I guess my thoughts are that if there are procedures that
> you simply aren't ready to deal with (i.e., ACL revision,
> PL reconstruction), then I'd make that clear to your
> surgeon. This is your knee and you do have the right to
> indicate that you only wish to take care of meniscus
> problems. I did a such a "deal" during my last
> knee surgery - I thought I might have some articular
> cartilage damage due to minor medial pain, but indicated to
> my surgeon to please leave any lesion alone (other than a
> general debridement of loose cartilage) because my symptoms
> just weren't that bad. It's a good thing, because he said
> he would have been tempted to do an osteochondral autograft
> transfer procedure on what he found, which I was not at the
> time interested in dealing with....and the lesion remains
> relatively painfree a year later. I'm back to dealing with
> another lateral meniscus tear (surgery again in 2 weeks)
> and plan on telling him again to leave the medial side
> alone!
> Good luck and let us know how it goes,
> SueBW
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