sunvalleylaw
Yep.
What Smurf said. Patience and one step at a time. Glad the news isn't too bad.
One a separate note, I originally typed the above as "Shat Smurf said." I thought that was funny.
Mojo Request Possible/probable major setback
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One a separate note, I originally typed the above as "Shat Smurf said." I thought that was funny.
OGG
Master of the Meh
I would have bet the Ranch that it was directly related to the surgery, but having now researched it quite thoroughly, I'd have lost the Ranch.
It most certainly is related to why I had to have those surgeries in the first place. As I mentioned above, it is insanely rare to pop that particular tendon. Astronomical odds.
"Three cases of closed rupture of the flexor carpi radialis tendon associated with scapho-trapezio-trapezoidal arthritis."
This is exactly what I was suffering from that necessitated the surgeries.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2007820
My "Theory", is that the tendon was compromised by the long term arthritis. Before the surgery, I had limited flexation of the wrist, especially in the fingers up/pushing backwards type. The surgery completely removed the Trapezoidal bone that would by simply being there, also limit that type of flexation to a certain range. In fact, one of the first things I noted with both hands after surgery was the CRAZY amount of available flexation in the thumbs in particular. One of my theraputic exercises was to pull my thumb down towards the elbow, and some people would puke if they saw just how unnaturally far it would go. Anyway, my theory is that without a bone in place to limit the flexation range, and with the extreme length of time that tendon was compromised by the arthritis, it simply allowed my wrist to flex well beyond "normal" limits and thereby stretched that tendon beyond it's limits.
Makes total sense. Path of least resistance sort of thing.
bsman
b00b
Interesting! My daughter once told me that a hand surgeon told her she had “hypermobile” joints and proceeded to bend her thumb back towards her elbow. She was shocked, but he was able to bend it almost to the forearm without pain, and when she demonstrated it to me I was shocked. I guess you now have hypermobile joints!
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Glad to hear it is no where near as bad as you first suspected.
Still - yowzers! Healing mojo out your way.
Still - yowzers! Healing mojo out your way.
telecaster911
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Continued good thoughts. 
Flatspotter
What?
Glad to hear it wasn't the worst case scenario. The next time someone tells you you're one in a million, you can tell them, "More like one in a billion, bitch!"
OGG
Master of the Meh
The knee that's getting replaced soon is still the only documented case of the specific reconstructive surgery done on a "living" human. My Orthopedic Surgeon at that time was a very highly regarded sports medicine guy who only saw professional athletes... Many of whom would travel from around the world to see him. I only got to be his patient because of the bizarre nature of that particular injury which had never been seen before.
He had to "invent" a surgical procedure, practice it on cadavers, and get special approval to do it. Because it was such a novelty, they performed the surgery in a "Surgical Theater" with a 360° viewing booth above, and multiple motion picture cameras to document the surgery. Something like 50 other Orthos from near and far were in attendance.
It was very risky, and unimaginably gruesome, but it was a success and has kept me walking (relatively) since 1990. Not bad.
"Osteotomy posterallatural femural condile". Basically, after making a 15" incision up the center of my leg, all of the tissue attached to the end of the Femur was detached and moved out of the way in order to cut the outer half of the end of the bone off with what amounted to a sterile Skillsaw, move the cut off portion back where it was supposed to be (but wasn't since it was first broken), and putting two massive screws through the Femur to hold it together before re-attatching all of the ligaments and tendons etc and sewing it all up.
The aftermath was brutal. The pain was unreal, and the rehab grueling and lengthy, but as I said, it "worked".
Unfortunately, those big ass screws have to come out for my knee replacement, which is going to greatly extend that rehabing.
But it's all good in the hood!
