New study confirms patients avoid other surgeries by having brain cancer

Today I met with Dr. Z, a musculoskeletal surgeon, regarding my (right) shoulder.

Apparently, if you dislocate something, the chance you will dislocate it again is around 90 percent. That's a high percent.

My initial dislocation was in 1992 when I was hit by a truck. I dislocated it again at Lon's house last January in a spirited round of Wii tennis. (Yes, I am one of "those people" you hear about with a Wii-injury.)

The surgeon would have recommend surgery today but said that there was no way in hell he'd operate on me while I am going through cancer treatment. He didn't say it just like that, but you get the idea.

We struck a deal: as soon as this whole "brain cancer thing" is free and clear for a year, I will come see him for a shoulder surgery. Until then I need to throw balls under-handed, play tennis with my left arm, and not carry jugs of water over my head.

Interesting to note: While moving around my shoulders to assess mobility, Dr. Z remarked that I have some of the loosest shoulder joints he has ever seen.