Sotomayor to undergo surgery

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I’ll pray for her speedy and hopefully pain-free recovery (as I’m sure you will too). I’ve met Justice Sotomayor. She’s a lovely woman. Friend of the family.
 
Comminuted fractures of the humeral head almost never heal well, from what I have observed. The articular cartilage, for one thing, is disrupted and never heals. Sounds like that’s what she has.

It’s a mean injury, even with a prosthetic humeral head. The therapy will be long and arduous because the humeral head isn’t held in place by a “socket”, but by muscles that have to re-learn how to hold the prosthesis in place.
 
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Comminuted fractures of the humeral head almost never heal well, from what I have observed. The articular cartilage, for one thing, is disrupted and never heals. Sounds like that’s what she has.

It’s a mean injury, even with a prosthetic humeral head. The therapy will be long and arduous because the humeral head isn’t held in place by a “socket”, but by muscles that have to re-learn how to hold the prosthesis in place.
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I image being Type I diabetic doesn’t help her any.
 
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I recall seeing one case in which the diabetic party’s humeral head simply died and collapsed due to increased impairment to already impaired circulation within it. Osteonecrosis, I believe it’s called.

That could have been the situation here.
 
Praying for Justice Sotomayor’s full and speedy recovery.
 
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