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Slap lesions and surgeons and bollocks 21-Jun-2012 At 11:10:43 AM tnd

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I had AC joint clavicle resection, acromioplasty and biceps tenodesis last Sat with Dr Jerome Goldberg in Sydney. All (often in combination) classic overuse conditions in a middle-aged climber according to him. He says it went well. Little pain to speak of when the nerve block wore off, but I love morphine so I gave the clicker a work out anyway.

Felt like shit for two days because of the anaesthetic and antibiotics (or maybe the morphine overdose), and I hate wearing a sling (luckily one week only for that). Apart from that all ok. Except statistically I've apparently got a 30% chance of it occurring on the other shoulder.

My MRI report said I had a couple of minor SLAP lesions but Jerome never mentioned this; have to ask him why. They were only a couple of mm so perhaps not big enough to fix.