Surgery sucks

[Red63440]

Best of luck to you Sir. While back I tore my bicep tendon, when the surgeon was in there taking out a big spur she snipped the two fibers that was holding it in place. Not that hard to deal with, except for the fact that certain movements will try and make the bicep tendon work...hurts like a sumovabeech...

Sitting here with my sling off now, daily minor exercise and time out of the sling. It feels good but painful if moved in the wrong direction. The stitches come out this Friday but I still have 5 remaining weeks in the sling before my rehab starts.

 

[retroron]

This may not turn out right, all one handed...rotator cuff surgery on the 27th and released yesterday on my left shoulder due to a fall in my driveway over the July 4th holiday, ripped my bicep muscle off as well as the tendon on top of the shoulder. It will be 6 weeks on a sling and 6 to 9 months to heal totally, i am the care giver for my 76 year old wife who has dementia and stage 4 C.O.P.D. it all should be really interesting trying to do everything one handed. I was informed that i will now set a metal detector off.

Red, I've had both my shoulders repaired so I understand your concern. For me it took a year to get the shoulders back to what you would call normal. I doubt you will set off metal detectors, the rotator cuff ligament attachment pins are small and they most likely are titanium which won't trip the detector. Best of luck.

 

[Red63440]

Red, I've had both my shoulders repaired so I understand your concern. For me it took a year to get the shoulders back to what you would call normal. I doubt you will set off metal detectors, the rotator cuff ligament attachment pins are small and they most likely are titanium which won't trip the detector. Best of luck.

Thank you for the info, the doctor did say that it would take quite a while to heal.

 

[retroron]

Range of motion takes a while, I got to the point where I could get the martini glass to my mouth and declared victory

 

[Red63440]

Range of motion takes a while, I got to the point where I could get the martini glass to my mouth and declared victory

The funny part is I could reach over my head before my surgery and the doctor said I shouldn’t have been able to do that.

 

[inkjunkie]

Physical therapy is probably going to hurt pretty badly in the beginning. Just trying to get some range of motion. But once you get some motion in it the pain subsides pretty quickly, least it did for me. I seen my shoulder doc few months back, pain has been escalating. Films showed that I am missing good sized chunks of the cartilage and I should probably start thinking about a replacement. Doc told me that because me rotator cuff is starting to show some damage that my recovery is going to be slow...and painful. Said most folks take a bout a year of therapy to get over it. Yeah....that is not going to happen right now.

 

[Red63440]

Physical therapy is probably going to hurt pretty badly in the beginning. Just trying to get some range of motion. But once you get some motion in it the pain subsides pretty quickly, least it did for me. I seen my shoulder doc few months back, pain has been escalating. Films showed that I am missing good sized chunks of the cartilage and I should probably start thinking about a replacement. Doc told me that because me rotator cuff is starting to show some damage that my recovery is going to be slow...and painful. Said most folks take a bout a year of therapy to get over it. Yeah....that is not going to happen right now.

Sorry for the news from the doctor about the cartilage, never good to hear. I was a Millwright most of my life until I got into management but the damage occurred when I fell in my driveway. I fell directly on my left shoulder and severed the bicep muscle and a tendon that runs from the ball of the shoulder to under the collar bone. It happened over the July 4th holiday when I stumbled over a looped garden hose in my driveway that some idiot hadn’t rolled back up. Exrays showed no damage so the foiiowing week I ended up at the doctors where he checked my ROM and said that since I could extend my arm fully abouve my head, I must be fine!
At the end of November I called his office and requested that an MRI be scheduled, a week and a half later he stood there and told me that my MRI was not normal......no **** Sherlock!!
I told him that had he done an MRI in July I would have had my surgery months ago, he apologized and explained that the insurance companies require the delay to help keep costs down. So all of that brings me to today...all the years a pulled a wrench and swung a sledge where fine but it took an act of laziness to put me in the hospital.....and that’s the truth!

 

[S'cuder]

If you find yourself needing to be in two places at once, and need a hand getting someone somewhere, send me a PM. I'm in the Town of Greece, a little under an hour away. I'll try to help.

 

[Red63440]

If you find yourself needing to be in two places at once, and need a hand getting someone somewhere, send me a PM. I'm in the Town of Greece, a little under an hour away. I'll try to help.

Appreciate it, know the area. Are you a member of Rochester Mopars?

 

[inkjunkie]

Sorry for the news from the doctor about the cartilage, never good to hear. I was a Millwright most of my life until I got into management but the damage occurred when I fell in my driveway. I fell directly on my left shoulder and severed the bicep muscle and a tendon that runs from the ball of the shoulder to under the collar bone. It happened over the July 4th holiday when I stumbled over a looped garden hose in my driveway that some idiot hadn’t rolled back up. Exrays showed no damage so the foiiowing week I ended up at the doctors where he checked my ROM and said that since I could extend my arm fully abouve my head, I must be fine!
At the end of November I called his office and requested that an MRI be scheduled, a week and a half later he stood there and told me that my MRI was not normal......no **** Sherlock!!
I told him that had he done an MRI in July I would have had my surgery months ago, he apologized and explained that the insurance companies require the delay to help keep costs down. So all of that brings me to today...all the years a pulled a wrench and swung a sledge where fine but it took an act of laziness to put me in the hospital.....and that’s the truth!

Sorry that you got the run-a-round from the insurance. Some times I really wonder how the system got so turned upside down. The more I fall apart physically the more I understand why doctors say they "practice medicine".

 

[S'cuder]

Appreciate it, know the area. Are you a member of Rochester Mopars?

No problem, if I can help, please ask.
I was in the club for a short time, but left when the membership eligibility was opened to other makes of cars.

 

[Red63440]

Sorry that you got the run-a-round from the insurance. Some times I really wonder how the system got so turned upside down. The more I fall apart physically the more I understand why doctors say they "practice medicine".

I ave always been a fighter and this won't keep me down.

 

[Red63440]

No problem, if I can help, please ask.
I was in the club for a short time, but left when the membership eligibility was opened to other makes of cars.

I am sure I know you although I am sorry you left. If I need help I will let you know...promise.

 

[Red63440]

Let me share something with you guys that smoke......In 2017 on December 27th I went to the doctors with what I thought was my yearly bout with Bronchitis. Hell after smoking for 49 years I thought I was pretty slick. People I knew had died from cancer including my father but you know how that goes, won't happen to me. So I left the doctors office and drove to the drug store and picked up the prescription he had called in for me. I thought it would be a Z-pack at the very least but when I got home I found one bottle with one pill in it....? I took my pill that night and went to bed and when I woke up the following morning of the 28th I felt really bad and pretty much spent the day on the couch. As the day went on I found it harder and harder to breathe as in "painful", I took as many pills as I could as far as Tylenol but nothing was helping. My neighbor is a widow, one of the type of people that is always ready to help no matter what time of day. She had stopped earlier and had asked if there was anything she could pick up for me while she was at the store and I had given her a short list. This woman has been my Guardian Angel, she is the one who ran me to the hospital when I fell and screwed up my rotator cuff this past July. Anyhow she came to the back door of my home with my bag of groceries, took one look at me, dropped the bag and grabbed me just before I hit the floor. She helped me get my coat on and on the way out the door she told my wife she was taking me to the hospital, my wife asked me if I would like to take a muffin with me for later which was the dementia talking.
When we finally arrived at the hospital they took me directly into the ER, no registration, no insurance questions.....I spent 6 hours in the ER with 2 doctors, a respiratory staff and 3 nurses and my widowed neighbor holding my hand. They admitted me the evening of the 28th and the admitting doctor came to my room once they had me all checked in and he told me that my lungs were so swollen that they were against my rib cage before I tried to inhale, I had pneumonia. He also said that had I not been brought to the ER when I was I more than likely would have died. So as of December 28th of this year I was smoke free for 1 year. That in itself does'nt make me special and it may not change what the future may bring but it is nice not spending money on cigarettes when I can be putting the money in my car or maybe a new pistol or fishing lures. The funny part is that while I was in the hospital last year on the 28th for my lungs I was in the hospital this year on the 28th for my rotator cuff and when I came out of recovery I again found my neighbor holding my hand.

 

[Red63440]

Had my stitches removed this past Friday and I am to call to schedule physical therapy Monday morning. Hopefully I will be to normal in a few months.

 

[SpeedThrills]

Hang in there, Red!
I tore the Supraspinatus clean off the bone, in my right shoulder in Sept. of 2015. (I also tore the bicep a bit.) It was March of 2016 before I was able to do most things w/o pain. It was a year before I didn't notice it while doing simple things.
This past September, I tore the left Supersprinatus completely, and (partially) the infrasprinatus and bicep in my left shoulder!
(I always say if you're going to do something, do it right!) I'm at week 17 now, and just went back to work (school bus driver) last week. I still have about a month of therapy left. (Strengthening and upper range of motion.)
The worst part for me was the boredom. I could only watch so much TV, and play on the web so much. I broke it up by walking. According to my fitness app, I walked 330 miles!
BE RELIGIOUS ABOUT THE THERAPY. I do mine twice a day, seven days a week. Three of those times are at the Therapists'. It's not easy to maintain, but well worth it. I could throw a ball after the right side healed up. I'm 59.
Gotta go do my exercises before it's time to drive the afternoon.
Stick with it. It'll be over before you know it.