Ben Update

So do you want and update on Ben? Here it is anyways. He went in this last Thursday and was given a shot of steroids and other stuff as a way to make sure they know where the pain is and what is causing it. The doctor said that since the shoulder has sat in the wrong position for so long, his bones have adjusted to that position and now that it is sitting in the right position, he is rubbing bone together. So he needs a surgery to go in and shave some bone. The doctor here has done this surgery 5 times and 2 of the times the person came out of it with no pain and the other people 3 came out with the same or worse pain. I think Ben wants to do the surgery. One, to see if it will help and two, because he thinks that if he was to go to the med board to get out then they would ask if everything that could be done was done and the doctor would say that there is still this surgery that could be done. My feeling is that I want to get out and I am afraid that this will only make it worse. However, Ben is right in that, even if we did try to med board out now they would want him to do the surgery anyways. So either he will come out of it fixed and we stay in till 2011 or still in pain or possible more pain and we get out. It has been no secret that I want to get out but not at the cost of him in pain his whole life so we are hoping it works. He goes in on the 1st of August to set up the surgery and we don't know what the recovery time will be this time. Since it isn't dealing with muscle and more with bone Ben hopes it will be shorter this time. But he will still get one month off for leave to recover.