Surgery count

Figured that I might as well update this list

  1. Exploratory laparoscopy, ovarian cyst
  2. L4-5 laminectomy/diskectomy
  3. L4-L5 laminectomy/diskectomy and scar clean up
  4. Tonsils
  5. Right base of thumb laxity
  6. Left thumb trigger release
  7. Right thumb trigger release
  8. DeQuervain’s release right side
  9. DeQuervain’s release left side
  10. Right shoulder AC joint
  11. Left eye cataract
  12. Right eye cataract
  13. Left foot bone graft and hardware placement (idiopathic fracture)
  14. Removal of hardware
  15. Removal of ganglion cyst, right foot
  16. Removal of the same ganglion cyst, again
  17. Left middle finger trigger finger release
  18. Left eye post cataract laser surgery
  19. Right knee medial meniscus arthroscopy
  20. Left carpal tunnel release

Do you at least get Air Miles points for all these surgeries? Congrats on surviving them!

No, but I’m also not sure if the doctor in the lead with surgery count wins a prize. My old hand surgeon got up to five and is still the leader. Current hand surgeon is at two, and the foot surgeon has four

I’ve not need one surgery yet as regards PsA effects or indeed any side effects issues.

Posted the above too soon. Just wanting to send cyber hugs on enduring all that. It’s a heck of a lot of surgery issues.

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Most of my surgeries have fallen into a similar category, releases. So while there’s a lot of surgeries, thankfully they are primarily minimal. My mom has had a lot of these surgeries as well. I think there’s some combination of genetics and autoimmune at work.

Thankfully, this latest surgery has been minimally disruptive

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