A’s Daniel Gossett shares details of his Tommy John surgery

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Daniel Gossett met with the media Saturday three days after surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and he said that one of the first people he spoke to post-surgery was fellow starter Kendall Graveman - who’d had the same surgery the same week.

“Kendall called me right after surgery,” Gossett said. “He just wanted to check on me, I really appreciated that. And his wife (Victoria) called my wife (Presley) to make sure she was doing OK, too.”

Gossett, 25 initially was diagnosed with a flexor-tendon strain and when he resumed throwing after rest and rehab, he’d harbored hopes that the problem had been resolved. As he increased the distance of his throws, however, his elbow began to hurt and he knew that he might be dealing with a UCL tear.

MRIs were inconclusive, as is often the case, but A’s orthopedist Dr. WIll Workman suggested surgery, as did Rangers orthopedist Dr. Keith Meister, who has performed many of the A’s UCL repairs, including Gossett’s and Graveman’s.

“It tuned out to be a lot worse than the MRI showed,” Gossett said of Meister’s post-surgery report. “Now we’re on the right path.”

Meister used the palmaris tendon from Gossett’s wrist to reconstruct his UCL and, the procedure, Meister told Gossett, “was straightforward - boring and uneventful,” Gossett said. “That’s what you want to hear.”

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Gossett said that for the first day or two, Presley had to help him with anything that required two hands - twisting caps off bottles, squeezing toothpaste. “She took really good care of me,” he said. “She pretty much to do everything.”

The Gossetts are expecting their first child, a girl, in October, so it soon will be Gossett’s turn to return the favor. “Surgery is never good,” he said, “but if there’s one positive, it’s that I’ll be able to get in a lot of baby time and help out as much as I can.”

Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @susanslusser

Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @susanslusser