[georgeinVA]

Raindrop, sorry to take so long to answer your note, don’t really monitor this, dr Towfigh gave me a nudge. Surgery was performed by dr Tomas in ft Myers fla, he is the leader in the us performing hernia repair using the desarda technique, others do the procedure but he is well over a 1000, haven’t checked recently. I wanted to avoid mesh but didn’t like the recurrence odds of most tissue repairs, I eventually found the desarda repair. After 2 years I imagine I am at a stable point. The vast majority of the time I don’t even think about the procedure or the worry that proceeded it. Under normal routine no pain, if I push to hard I get a reminder, some serious temporary pain in the incision area, pulling on scar tissue I’m sure. Recently had to move a little over a ton of rocks via wheelbarrow, deserved the pain I got. Doesn’t seem much different from other guys I have spoken with, of course the younger ones do better, I’m 72. Would do it again in a heartbeat, maybe someday they will invent a mesh I would trust but not currently, I know to many bad stories. Anything specific you would like to know I will try to check in here more frequently. Regards … george