Hi!
@Jaycey and all! So, surgery went crazy well.
As some of you may remember, I do my surgeries with just regional block, in this case from just below my neck to fingers. I have crazy bad mental issues with sleep.
I just noticed I never updated after my revision. I've never gotten the hang of one handed typing. The revision was July 30, 2020. They found no infection and ended up just replacing the saucer side with the newer model with four screws. Recovery was amazingly quick with return to 99% range of motion. The revised shoulder feels so rock solid! I'm being easy with it most of. the time.
So, back to new issues. When I went in for my one year check on revision, I said that revised shoulder was fabulous but mentioned my left shoulder was again having some pain. He checked range of motion and strength and it appeared to be having enough to concern him. He felt confident that my shoulder would last another year or so (down considerably from an earlier 3-4 years prediction) So, come back in a month or after a little PT. After very painful PT, back again and offered MRI or steroid injection. I was having a very painful day so took steroid injection knowing MRIs take about 2-3 months to schedule. Steroid injection really worked so well that I almost cancelled MRI but did go. The shoulder specialist was in South America adopting a child so met with original general ortho who looked at MRI and said most definitely would be replacing but wait to talk to Dr. Florez as possible he would want to do repair. Dr. Florez said it would be a wait and see what happens when he gets a look see. He was confident that he could repair the supraspinatis but might cause problems depending on amount of cartilage on the humeral head so most likely reverse replacement especially since the revision was doing so extremely well. (knock on wood)
Which background brings me to today's surgery. I arrived at 6:00 a.m. in new building in hospital complex. Its amazing and well laid out. Off the elevator to front desk, check in, to next area to wait for escort to pre op, each has individual nice sized room, saw surgeon and anesthesiologist. Gave me their initials. Surgeon said he really felt that he was going to do repair which scared me to crying since he will be leaving Pittsburgh in three months. Who was going to fix it when it broke? He assured me that he would fix it if it broke. Really very close to backing out but got it sucked up and calmed down. A little bit of trouble getting the needle into the "snowman" but got a bit around and lots on the "grapes" to do the block. Must have worked since I'm still totally numb 14 hours later and just starting to get some movement....and pain. Of course its night time and don't want to wake anyone.
Anyway, first on the schedule and in surgery at 7. All the prep and draping that you get to see when awake and then probably a little more. Did a quick arthroscopic look and reversed opinion with a "Well you really do need a replacement. If I do the repair and get good tight joint you'll have quite a bit of constant pain. The humeral head is "raw" and in bad shape. So we switched gears again to replacement. Very interesting being wide awake for it. I was done by 9ish and back in my room by 10:00. I had assumed I would have to stay at least overnight but was told I was free to go whenever I could get a ride and was comfortable!
I hadn't scheduled anyone to come so ended up having to wait until after 2. But it was a good thing since diaphragm quite not moving and throat not swallowing water until about Noon.
So I'm home and on to recovery.
Pendulum swings start as soon as I'm comfortable! Whew! Hoping for some surgery buddies!
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Very early days 
