Hi, my medical coverage is through the Kaiser HMO, and generally, unless there's an issue one is expected to take whatever surgeon is assigned to you. My primary care doctor agrees, that at the moment, it isn't urgent and can wait a while, but the reason why I'm wanting to find out how long it like to take is to figure out when my schedule as a performing musician will be least damaged by not being able to play.
I have not yet been assigned a surgeon. It is also not practical for me to travel from my home in the SF Bay Area, to seek out a particular surgeon in florida and have the surgery there, but I thank @MasssageGuy for the comment, and hope that the information will prove useful to Forum members living in florida.
(There have been mesurements of oral pressure of both oboe players and trumpet players *while playing* and while the peak air pressure of a trumpet player is higher than that of an oboist, the average for oboe players is higher, and one would assume that this correlates with stress on the lower gut).
I also understand that I can only ask for a statistical statement, which is like " of a statistically valid sampling of people having this kind of surgery, the average time for recovery is X weeks, but most seem to take from Y to Z weeks". I fully expect that my milage *will* vary.
Nonethless, doing some sampling here might give me some kind of clue.