The last thing I saw before surgery was the color bars......

Well, after two years of physical therapy, a corotozone shot, and untold temper tantrums that I can now blame on the pain, I finally had the sugery to correct a torn labrum on Friday July 13th 2012.

To avoid the obvious questions, What's the Labrum?. The labrum is a type of cartilage that surrounds the socket of ball-and-socket joints. A labrum is found in both the shoulder and the hip joint. The labrum forms a ring around the edge of the bony socket of the joint. It helps to provide stability to the joint by deepening the socket, yet unlike bone, it also allows flexibility and motion.

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As they wheeled me into the operating room at the NYU Langone Center for Joint Diseases in Manhattan, I was surrounded by a bank of broadcast quality monitors, displaying color bars. It was those monitors which my Doctor (Robert Meislin) would use to navigate his way around in the small socket and clean up the frayed edges and loose parts of the labrum, and clean out bone spurs, which were the source of two years of pain, these technology advances continue to amaze me. Those color bars were the last things I saw before the anesthesia kicked in..the next thing I knew it was two hours later, and I was in the recovery room.

I want to thank my friends, family, colleagues, and the staff at NYU Langone Center for Joint Diseases (except the person in "accounting" that forgot to click one "billing approval" button Thursday night which caused a 45 minute delay in my admission for surgery) for the support and encouragement, and prayers for my Refuah Shlema, complete and speedy recovery, I look forward to thanking you in person.

I also want to thank my constant nurse and ice maker wife Robbie for her support, I expect to be on crutches for the next 3 weeks, however I feel better every day.