Greg, Get a second opinion on your own. Don't ask your current docs for a recommendation. They may send you to one of their buddies. If the second opinion doesn't sound right to you, get a third. It is better to get the surgery now unless you have another condition that makes this surgery risky. You also have the right as the patient to insist on having it fixed now. Most people don't understand that docs work FOR the person who is paying them. You are the employer. They are working for you. If they get their back up over it then you don't want them working for you anyway. Arrogance makes for mistakes! Let us know how this works for you. Shyrell On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:47:34 -0400 Greg Fraser <fraserg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This brings up an interesting topic for me. My ortho surgeon told me it > would take about 6 months to see if my arm heals up in a usable way. The > broken bones are not aligned correctly. If, after 6 months, I don't have > adequate range of motion and lack of pain then they will perform surgery to > re-align the bones. Is this what happened to you? My wife has a very hard > time understanding the logic of this and feels they should just dive in with > the knives now. > > Greg > > >
