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The Network That Fixes Me

So I have a pretty amazing Dr.  If there is a way to fix me, without cutting me open he knows it.  And really well.  And he has great "bed side manner," which is a lost art with Dr's these days.  Please check out Dr. Victor Ibrahim so he can put you back together.  He has fixed tendons in my shoulder and feet, nerve spasms in my leg, torn meniscus, general pain in my knee due to previous surgeries (and a lack of cartilage) and all without cutting me open.  So when my finger looked like this post fight

he was the first one I turned to.  Well I'm an eternal optimist.  My finger looking like that means the tendons are ruptured.  Upon not being able to locate my tendons on ultra sound, Dr Ibrahim called his colleague Dr Hashemi.  Dr Hashemi squeezed me in that afternoon at 2:30 in his Arlington office.  After seeing my finger and discussing my options, he was on the phone within 20 minutes of first meeting me to get me into a surgical center that afternoon, on July 3.  No easy task.  He found one, we got in our cars and off to Silver Spring we went.  I received local anesthetic to have pins inserted into my finger to fix pretty much every tendon in the end of my pinky and I was out and on my way by 5:30.  Modern medicine never happens like that. He called me 3 hours after surgery to check on me and again the day after....on the 4th of July.  Again modern medicine never happens like that.  1 - I am extremely beyond satisfied with the speed at which every thing was handled 2 - His bedside manner is unmatched 3 - All this around a holiday 4 - My recovery time is about as quick as one could hope for. So needless to say if you have a nerve, bone or joint issue on your upper half (brain and spin excluded), Dr Hashemi the guy you should see.

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