Re: Age & Results.......Cammie? Mike?

[Guest guest]

Mike, if you've been around these sites long enough (I've been here

since Feb of 2001, when there were a mere 20,000 posts here), you'll

see a lot of people come through here. We hear from most of them, I

would say very few have problems. The ones that post the most appear

to have the most difficulties post-op (and they are usually short-

term issues, limited to the initial and first few months of

recovery), and that kind of skews the tone of the sites from time to

time, but there are also those of us who had a good experience and

who try to keep a presence here in order to present a balanced view.

I try to remember, for myself, that life itself is a risk. I think

there are many more risks in driving to work each day, for example,

than that I faced undergoing this procedure. Try driving down the

highway at 120 km only to stop short in a wall of dense fog, hoping

that everyone behind you (including transport trucks) stop in time

too. That day, earlier this year, several hundred vehicles were

involved, and in the short few kilometres before I was able to exit

the highway, it looked like a war zone. You never know what can

happen. I could go on with other examples, but I think you probably

get my point. We all take risks, and live with the consequences.

Good luck, and once again, I hope for relief for you from your

suffering.