So I went into the royal children's hospital today, felt a bit strange considering I am in my late 20's surrounded by very young people with pectus excavatum. Was kinda nice having fellow PE people in the same room together.
I visited the nuss surgeon just so that he could examine me and inform me of whether the surgery was an option for me and would he be willing to perform the surgery.
Need the Surgery?
He examined me for a little while and apparently my pectus excavatum is very mild compared to ones he has seen and he said that it was really up to me whether I wanted the surgery as for me it was totally a COSMETIC surgery and nothing else but he was happy to perform the surgery on me as he had been doing the nuss surgery for around 10 years and was very experienced.
He didn't push me towards the surgery at all and was very reassuring that my condition was very mild so I left feeling quite a lot better , he also gave me a brochure on how the nuss procedure is performed and it kind of puts you off its a bit gory. For now I will continue to use exercises to try and fix my PE and I asked the surgeon about this and he said it couldn't hurt. Probably should have asked him more questions considering how much he charges for his time oh well at least I know the surgery is an option.
You can visit Pectus Excavatum Surgery , http://www.pesurgery.com for more information on the surgery procedure and its being updated weekly so there should be some updates coming son
