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Re: Set-up change due to surgery?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-08-03 02:40

I want to get into this from a different perspective. This is not medical advice, and a doctor's advice is always to be sought and valued in making one's own medical decisions.

I had a hernia repair done last September. It was a "minimally invasive" procedure done by a relatively young surgeon using a laparoscope to guide small instruments and a camera through very small incisions. The procedure, fortunately, was trouble-free. Because there was a minimum of cutting, there was really no recovery once I left the hospital later that same day. More to the point of nellsonic's question, I was able to begin playing clarinet again the next day and played a full rehearsal on the following night. I didn't do this against medical advice - I was told that I could do anything that didn't cause pain or discomfort (he knew I was a clarinetist). Playing didn't cause either.

I don't want to denigrate the traditional surgery. There are patients who aren't good candidates for minimally invasive procedures for any number of reasons, and many surgeons simply find them under-tested and prefer to stay with the ones they've been successful with at least until there's more history to look at. My only reason for bringing it up is to say that someone facing hernia surgery should feel comfortable asking the surgeon if a minimally invasive procedure is available and what is the surgeon's view of its pros and cons.

Karl

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