Weighing Risks of a Major Surgery: 7 Questions Older Americans Should Ask Their Surgeon ...Middle East

Larry McMahon, who turns 80 this month, is weighing whether to undergo a major surgery. Over the past five years, his back pain has intensified. Physical therapy, muscle relaxants, and injections aren’t offering relief. “It’s a pain that leaves me hardly able to do anything,” he said. Should McMahon, a retired Virginia state trooper who now lives in Southport, North Carolina, try spinal fusion surgery, a procedure that can take up to six hours? (Eight years ago, he had a lumbar laminectomy, another arduous back surgery.) “Will I recover in six months — or in a couple of years? Is it safe for a man of my age with various health issues to be put to sleep for a long peri

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