So I finally managed to drag my butt out of bed, have Laura "hose" me off and reapply bandages at which point I "barked" at her for ripping out some hair........so she finally took off for a few hours of working out (on a punching bag no doubt) and now I start over!
Probably sounds familar to a few of you........just getting home from shoulder surgery............this time a repeat of the repair to my left side four years ago now on the right. I tired for 18 months to deal with it in every possible way......but when they cut off any further cortisone injections last April it was time to make plans.
In my case it was an arthritic conditon leaving a bone spur in the a/c joing which was causing a ton of impingement. Apparently when the doc got inside yesterday morning the dmamage was worse then expected.....in fact there was missing cartilage (plan dissolved). Apparently my hyper mobile shoulders make things worse......the amount of damage required 1/4" of the clacicle to be reomved and a fair amount of bone shaved down.
So......the countdown begins!! Back for next May is the goal, starting with getting on a spin bike tomorrow, PT 3x a week starting thursday, kick only workouts for a few months in mid october, then chsing evil-goodsmith around the pool starting 1/1 (he doesn't know I got a membership t his club yet)!
So I passed my first hurdle, left hand typing and mouse use....getty-up!
I know u said you had this before. So u know the come back trail is not an easy one. I have had 2 shoulder surgeries. R side was the arthroplasty & left was after the R cuz it got jealous of all the attention the R one got during recoop time. That was arthoscopic.
They also shaved both my acrominums for impingement. Funny thing about it was that the R, after it finally healed correctly, which took quite a while and alot of ice cubes later, is my best shoulder. I am now swimming all strokes with back & fly my best. Good luck & keep that ice handy. It really was a life saver but I imagine u are well aware.
I know u said you had this before. So u know the come back trail is not an easy one. I have had 2 shoulder surgeries. R side was the arthroplasty & left was after the R cuz it got jealous of all the attention the R one got during recoop time. That was arthoscopic.
They also shaved both my acrominums for impingement. Funny thing about it was that the R, after it finally healed correctly, which took quite a while and alot of ice cubes later, is my best shoulder. I am now swimming all strokes with back & fly my best. Good luck & keep that ice handy. It really was a life saver but I imagine u are well aware.
