The judge also adopted the consistent medical opinions finding the employee capable of performing light duty work with a candidacy for future neck, knee or shoulder surgery. Along with the order to pay for the specified surgeries, the judge incorporated an eight week closed period of total incapacity following each such medical procedure. We have the employee s appeal of this last order. The employee argues that the future grant of eight week periods of total incapacity following the various surgeries is speculative and without evidentiary support. We point out that the finding as to an eight-week period of incapacity is not entirely without some evidentiary support.
Medical conditions are dynamic and changing.
It is often impossible to ascertain future circumstances with precision. Here, it cannot be said that each and every surgical procedure would result in exactly eight weeks of total incapacity. The extent of total incapacity, following each surgical procedure, is undeterminable until the incapacity becomes a reality. We thus reverse the judge s finding as to the closed eight-week awards of future 34 total incapacity benefits. The judge clearly set out the medical conditions that may require additional treatment.