American style-
Got back from Ortho at the VA.
It went from 18 years of "we'll just do PT for that shoulder and it should make it feel better" -to (finally)- "Lets do an MRI on it" last year.
To- "WOW, that biceps tendon is really ganked, we'll do a cotortozone injection to see what happens" -to- "Okay, we'll cut and reattach that tendon" -to- today. "WOW, it looks like we'll need to rebuild that whole rotator cuff".

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