<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks Bob!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </span></font></div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>itunepiano@aol.com<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:44 PM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> caut@ptg.org<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [CAUT] Lessons from shoulder surgery</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Thanks, Jim  and feel better soon!   Bob.  </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-----Original Message-----<br> From: Jim Busby <jim_busby@byu.edu><br> To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">College and University Technicians</st1:PersonName> <caut@ptg.org><br> Sent: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 2:21 pm<br> Subject: [CAUT] Lessons from shoulder surgery<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_ab2e2883-1dfe-4c1a-9eea-56fc20d20610"> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>All,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Don’t put it off! It may get way worse.</span></font><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Surgery really wasn’t that bad, although the first 3 days after I wanted to die... </span></font><o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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><o:p></o:p></li> </ol> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>You can read all these articles on how to “avoid” such surgeries but in my studies I found that;</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style='margin-left:.75in'> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size-adjust: none;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size: 7.0pt'>                   </span></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Part of this comes with age/work and is somewhat inevitable for certain people</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style='margin-left:.75in'> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size-adjust: none;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size: 7.0pt'>                   </span></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Part of it is in the genes. Bone spurs, arthritis, is in my family…</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div style='margin-left:.75in'> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3.</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size-adjust: none;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size: 7.0pt'>                   </span></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Exercises, techniques, etc. can help, but sometimes 20,000 piano tunings and age win out.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Prognosis? 10 to 20 years of pain free tuning! Well, after another few weeks of torture…</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Jim Busby BYU</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>p.s. 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