Hello,

I was recently diagnosed with venous&arterial TOS by my local hospital and my surgeon wants me to get half of my 1st rib and scalene muscles removed. Someone spoke with me and told me that Dr. Lum is the best surgeon for TOS surgeries so I recently met with him for another opinion. His personality was great and explained my two pages of questions. At first he wants me to get lidocaine injections in my scalene muscles to see how that goes before we schedule surgery to remove the entire rib and snip the two scalene muscles. I'm trying to make the decision to either get surgery close to home, or travel hours to JH to get Dr. Lum to do it.

For those who did get their surgery by him, how was the surgery/post surgery and your stay at JH?