That is a bummer to have to find someone else to do your surgery, but at least your surgeon was honest with you and didnt go ahead and do the surgery without feeling 100% comfortable doing it.

My surgeon instructed me, because of venous TOS, to use a compression sleave or a tight ace bandage wrapped around my arm after surgery (my swelling was completely all over one arm) to assist with the blood flow OUT of my arm, but my subclavian vein was 'dead' and not allowing any blood to flow through it. However, if I were you I would check with your Dr. to make sure something like that would help and not actually make anything worse.