Petitioned My Disability Case Worker To Stay With My Surgeon When He Relocates To Hamilton
[ Thursday April 2nd 2026 at 10:30 pm ]
My surgeon is relocating to Hamilton Ontario in August 2026. I have just wrote this short letter to my disability case worker indicating my desire to stay with my surgeon when he relocates:
My surgeon is relocating to Hamilton Ontario in August 2026. The upshot is the combined much better facility for him to train, mentor and equip the next generation of orthopaedic surgeons exists in Hamilton.
I am wanting to continue my treatment with him. In all practical terms I am screwed if you say no to me. The other 2 knee surgeons in Kingston declined treatment of my knees. They are both emblematic of the problem I've had finding a surgeon willing to operation since 2006. Both knee surgeons are looking for routine orthopaedic issues with predictable outcomes. The lack of understanding of the disease I had with experimental treatment as an infant set in motion the orthopaedic issues I now have. I've got a surgeon willing to treat me. I just can't afford to let this end.
My overall impression is that my surgeon would expect me to demonstrate viable logistics for travel for appointments in Hamilton. I've done the legwork. VIA Rail between Belleville - Toronto, GO Transit train between Toronto - Hamilton & Hamilton public transit between GO station - hospital.
VIA Rail is the limiting factor that would mandate an overnight stay in Hamilton. There isn't a late enough VIA Rail train leaving Union Station heading east. I'd have to spend a night in Hamilton following each appointment. My surgeon has asked me to be the final patient he seems each day so he can make the time needed for me without causing every other patient's appointment to be late.
On March 23rd 2026 my surgeon agreed to 2 operations. The second surgery is to address the fluid that is still draining from under my April 2nd 2025 incision. Since I am going to be doing a warm water therapy pool based recovery I seriously doubt this operation can happen in Kingston before August 2026. I can't go in a therapy pool with an open incision.
Essentially you are the last hurdle in the logistics of allowing this to happen.
Ron