Hey all it turns out that I did have the TFCC (cartilage) tear in my wrist that we thought I had. I had the MRI on Tuesday, which stunk because I had to lie on my stomach which hurt my back and neck :( Anyways, I had my appointment today and the cartilage is torn for sure. My surgery is scheduled for next Friday 8/30. It is an outpatient surgery, so I will come home the same day. It is an arthroscopic surgery so they will go in through a few very small holes in my wrist and repair the torn cartilage and remove any lose pieces. It should be a relatively short surgery. We are not expecting recovery to be overly difficult, but you never know with me! I will be having the surgery done at NIMC (Centegra-McHenry) at 7:30 a.m.
The only concern we have is that the surgery will set off my autonomic dysfunction symptoms (heart rate, blood pressure, etc.) I contacted my neurologist via email today, but he is out of town until next week. Hopefully he will have some suggestions on how to make that aspect of my recovery easier!
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