The director of one of the companies administered by where I work was unable to attend a board meeting on Wednesday as he snapped his Achilles playing badminton on Monday evening. I don't know more than that. I have an unusual situation in my right shoulder where I have part of my clavicle missing and have been told by doctors that the tendons in that area have toughened to take the place of that missing piece of bone. Apparently, I only need to have the operation to make the clavicle complete if my right shoulder is in constant pain as it involves a bone graft from the hip and several screws. The pain in the shoulder would be reduced, but would still be there for a while, but my hip would be agony for some months. The reason I'm in this situation is because I had a heart operation at 3 months old. Apparently, when they put the sternum back together after an op like that, because of how soft a baby's bones are, this can happen.
I have to respond to the post before I become glib. That's amazing, Barry. I love the bit about how the tendons have adapted to fill the place of the missing bone.
I'm sure everyone here wishes you all the best with this 'treatment', Barry... please log in to view this image
I've been thinking about your op as a baby. I know we hear about ops on very young children, but imagining the actual scene where such a tiny body is the subject of surgeons' attention, is truly mind-boggling. Well it boggles mine. It must be harder for a start, but the weight of responsibility must be colossal, even for a less complicated op than you described, Barry. Why do we, as a society, glorify the talentless ****wits of X-Factor, the professional 'celebrities' (for whom no one remembers their original 'talent') etc, more than those involved in those medical processes such as Barry's? It really is a funny bloody world.
Are there nerve implications from the possible hip/shoulder op? Shoulders can be really niggly nerve-wise, I've found.
I was going to suggest 'twats', but really like the idea of nonebrities - am going to start using that. With your permission of course...
He's hustling you, BB. He wants it to become part of your everyday vocabulary and then: whoops, too late, you'll find out that Theo had whipped down the Patents Office today...
andy, I think my surgeon is reasonably well-known as the operation was done at Harefield by Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. As for the question about the nerves if I were to have the operation to correct my shoulder, it wasn't mentioned because my shoulder needs to be in constant pain for me to need the operation, so discussing something that wasn't going to happen was not required.
My nephew, now a nurse, did part of his training observing Prof Sir MY in the operating theatre. Occasionally he dropped into one of the Harefield/Northwood pubs though I've forgotten which.
Went to see my surgeon (I call him 'my' because it turns out to be the same fella who did my knee recently, not because "he's been treating the family for years, don't you know?" ) yesterday and I'm going to have ultrasound a week today. I'm really hoping this is going down the surgery line, not the "plenty of rest". Still, all put into perspective by my cousin, 38, having a golf ball sized brain tumour removed, for the second time, this Monday gone. All seems to be OK so far. He is a very brave lad and I'm really proud of him.
