<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks, Jim  and feel better soon!   Bob.  </font><br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Jim Busby <jim_busby@byu.edu><br> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org><br> Sent: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 2:21 pm<br> Subject: [CAUT] Lessons from shoulder surgery<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_ab2e2883-1dfe-4c1a-9eea-56fc20d20610"> <style>#AOLMsgPart_2_ab2e2883-1dfe-4c1a-9eea-56fc20d20610 </style> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">All,</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Last Tuesday (Dec. 11) I went in for shoulder surgery and came back today with some things I’d like to share. In the surgery the doctors removed calcium buildups (I DON’T know all their fancy names!), some arthritis, bone spurs, and shortened/smoothed the bone around the ball joint (hey, that’s what it looked like to me). Anyway, the excess bone was digging into the rotator cuff (sp?) and soon would have required replacement and/or other major work. “It was tearing through like a knife”. All I know is that it hurt to tune.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">After one week, I’m a bit sore but back to work! If I had waited another 3 or 4 months they told me it would have been MUCH worse! What I want to share to you;</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <ol style="margin-top: 0in;" start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Don’t put it off! It may get way worse.</span></font></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Find a great surgeon who won’t just give you cortisone shots month after month. (This guy does the BYU athletes and my doctor friends and nurses say he’s the best.)</span></font></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Surgery really wasn’t that bad, although the first 3 days after I wanted to die... </span></font></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Learn to tune left handed. Today I tuned a piano left handed (no problem because I’ve learned to) and pounding the key with my right hand was no problem. It’s impossible for me to tune right handed for another 3 or 4 weeks. (Hurts like hell to even raise it!)</span></font></li> </ol> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">You can read all these articles on how to “avoid” such surgeries but in my studies I found that;</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="">1.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">                   </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Part of this comes with age/work and is somewhat inevitable for certain people</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="">2.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">                   </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Part of it is in the genes. Bone spurs, arthritis, is in my family…</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.75in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="">3.<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">                   </span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Exercises, techniques, etc. can help, but sometimes 20,000 piano tunings and age win out.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Prognosis? 10 to 20 years of pain free tuning! Well, after another few weeks of torture…</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I also learned I’m one tough buck. They gave me pain pills but I’d rather take the pain than put that crap in my body. It always makes me feels much worse in the long run, and I can’t make the hour long drive to work with that in my system. They were amazed that I didn’t take anything and that my recovery was so fast. </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Jim Busby BYU</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">p.s. I’m 52 years old.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> </div> </div>  <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> More new features than ever. 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