Oct 3, 03:33 PM by Steve | Clavicle Fixation
Posted in Health
The “clavicle fixation” surgery went well and I am at home resting. There has been sufficient time for whatever anesthesia they gave me to wear off and there has not been any notable pain. They gave me percocet but I have no intention of taking any unless absolutely necessary. I just don’t like the concept of narcotic painkillers. Time will tell if I am an idiot or not, but I would rather be in pain and learn something about myself than wonder if it was really necessary. I found a cool diagram of the procedure
That looks familiar…BTW, who was the doc?
Take the meds if it helps you sleep, but if you’re fine during the day, don’t bother.
Heal fast brutha!
— Tom at Oct 3, 06:49 PMdoc was Hurvitz. I’ll have the dressings removed on Monday and then I’ll have a better idea of how it looks but for the time being at least I am symmetric again ;)
— Steve at Oct 3, 07:08 PMHaven’t heard of Hurvitz…I was just wondering if you had Gainor like I did.
It’ll be kinda gross looking for a while and the scar will take a bit to “fade”, but eventually the most noticeable thing will be the actual hardware under the skin.
Oh…and you might have some “numb” sections of skin just below the incision, but those eventually go away as the nerves disturbed in the operation “reconnect”.
You’ll be “good to go” in no time :-)
— Tom at Oct 4, 01:09 PMnarcotic painkillers are not to be messed with. you are being smart in my opinion. good luck.
— aham23 at Oct 4, 03:23 PM