Yeah, well I always knew my left shoulder was worse than the right. I don't think the doctor did anything wrong, but as I understand what they said Wednesday, they're going to take it out piece by piece, and adjust or replace the pieces with larger or smaller sizes. If that's true (I gotta ask again to make sure) they're probably going to send me for another CT scan, so they have the measurements to the tenth of a millimeter.
And he is a really good doctor. He trains the Duke Hospital orthopedic doctors at the main hospital in Durham and other doctors have told me he's the best. He was on vacation today, already out of town, and he called me 5 minutes after I got off the phone with the answering service and he discussed options for about 5 minutes.
So here's how I think about it. If I did something really, really complicated and messy (he cuts off the end of mah arm bones with a power saw, blood and bone and gristle flying everywhere) and I did the same thing hundreds and thousands of times - I think he's done 4,000 of these - then I might, if it was me, occasionally, hopefully even very rarely, I might could mess something up and have to fix it.
Doesn't mean he's a bad doctor. Doesn't mean he's a bad guy. Believe me, I have his full attention, whether he thinks he messed up or not.
But if he did mess up this one, he did a fantastic job on the other one, and I want him to fix it, and I trust him to fix it.
So, umm ... yeah. It's painful. Nowhere near as painful as before the surgery, but it stings.
I'd still like to have him do the job. Shit happens.
Edit: The last thing I want is a lawsuit. I'd like to have a good arm rather than a good case for medical malpractice.