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!
Come on Sam.....I couldn't touch you in any distance of backstroke except in my dreams.....you and Fritz both!
Phil.....its called arthritis (or plain getting old) and I refuse to accept it; clean it out and move forward!! Although I should place the blame on ASU coach Simon Percy who I trained with for 3 months going into May 04.....something about beating 20 year olds in practice that maybe my body didn't like after awhile!
As for the whole monty python analogy........you just summarized my and evil-goodsmiths relationship! I tried to drag his sorry ass onto a mtn bike this summer and put some hurt on those bird legs of his but he wasn't having any of it!
Come on Sam.....I couldn't touch you in any distance of backstroke except in my dreams.....you and Fritz both!
Phil.....its called arthritis (or plain getting old) and I refuse to accept it; clean it out and move forward!! Although I should place the blame on ASU coach Simon Percy who I trained with for 3 months going into May 04.....something about beating 20 year olds in practice that maybe my body didn't like after awhile!
As for the whole monty python analogy........you just summarized my and evil-goodsmiths relationship! I tried to drag his sorry ass onto a mtn bike this summer and put some hurt on those bird legs of his but he wasn't having any of it!
