My wife just had her left done last week, she had her right done 3 years ago but it seemed easier last time than this time. She had 50% tendon damage on her left. 30 years in the same job at a family owned business, she's a corporate officer now but she spent her first 15-20 there doing alot of the clerical work. She is small/petite and was never very athletic, and she is super sensitive to any kind of pain. She had arthroscopic surgery- they scraped the bone, did some anchor type of thing, and then repaired her tendon. 3 small holes with a few stiches in each. She was ok til the nerve block wore off later at home that night around midnight and the hydrocodone or whatever script she was given to fill did nothing and it hurt so bad she was freaking out so we took her to the emergency room at 2am where the Dr gave her like 2 drips of Dilaudid(sp). He then wrote her a script for Percocet or whatever and shes been taking those ever since. She's getting around pretty good now and has started 'pendulum' exercises already. Monday is her first Dr visit. I think she is anticipating being off work about 8 weeks total, more or less.
