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I really appreciate it and kind words and sentiment I definitely feel supported and encouraged by the forum<div>
</div><div> I just had the surgery yesterday so I’m in a lot of pain still but I feel somewhat good about the surgeon he’s a little odd or eccentric I should say but that’s with the 11 years of schooling gotta be somewhat good I would hope. I told him how important guitar was to me and that that was my goal was to get back to playing guitar and not having major problems and he said he spent the night before really contemplating that and thinking through the surgery and meditating on it and when we got in the hall going into the operating room he had his eyes closed and I said oh please don’t tell me you’re tired, and his response was no I was meditating about the procedure. That really made me feel good that he took the patient seriously and didn’t just think of me as just another forearm or hand. I liked that he mentally prepared himself before the procedure. </div><div>
</div><div> I saw him preop, and I said I was nervous. He said so was he! I was shocked he said that. He pulled a char up next to me, and told me a story from when he started practice in Seattle Washington. His partner was one of his instructors from the university. He asked him when does the nervousness go awa? His teacher, who had been in practice for 35 years at the time, says I’ll let you know when it happens. So to me that made him much more human then a lot of surgeons who put themselves up on a pedestal. I like that about him.</div>