>>>>>>>>Indeed Eratzio, MCP is one of our "best and brightest".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Truth.
>>>>>>> [falls on floor laughing, re-cracks mending ribs]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If true, I'm sorry.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ack, no...related to the other stupid post that I laughed out loud
>>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>>Got it. :-)
>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>I tore my rotator cuff working on the firepit for my husband. Gotta
>>>>>>put
>>>>>>that project on hold for a while.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sigh......
>>>>>
>>>>> Ow.
>>>>
>>>>Yep. It hurts like a devil and what's worse, I can't even knit right
>>>>now
>>>>something I enjoy doing on long summer evenings. However, there's a
>>>>bright side; my husband has been cooking dinner.
And here he is in all his balless glory
http://www.bachelorette.com/bp3952.html
>>>>
>>>>:-)
>>>
>>> Didja see a real doctor?
>>
>>Yep. I had to. The pain was excruciating.
>>
>>The reason I ask is that I'm a 'doctor myself'
Yeah you go grrllllllllllllllllllllll frmales can do it all hahahaha
>>> type and I didn't--and you strike me as of the same mentality,
>>
>>When I tore it last year, I didn't see anyone. My bad. This time I
did.
>>
>>but I did
>>> research it (and have some medical training besides)
She changed the bedpans at a lunatic asylum lol
and concluded I
>>> either tore mine completely--in which case I'd end up in surgery-- or
>>> just partially and if it didna heal after a few weeks of rest I'd know
>>> fer sure,
>>
>>It took 6 months for it to heal when I first did it last year. Dumb me,
>>I didn't see anyone. I tend not to unless there is blood. :-)
Retard
>>so went
>>online and bought a shoulder immobilizer
Where'd you get the brain immobiliser?
(like a sling
>>> but it straps with velcro around your waist). Annoying and confining
as
>>> all get out, but works GREAT on enforcing rest of those tendons. Then
>>> when it had healed enough I started exercising the shoulder muscles,
>>> first with Therabands then graduating up to dumbbells so it wouldn't
>>> happen again.
>>
>>I did do that THIS time. I still might need surgery but I'm trying to
>>stave that off.
>
> Well, just remember, tendons need REST; they're not like muscles that
> you can work it out of. If you feel your tendons talking to you while
> you're doing the theraband then STOP.
> (assuming you've not yet progressed up to free weights).
>
> No overdoing, young lady.
>
>>Of course, if I'd just stop doing heavy lifting in the
>>garden, I wouldn't have this problem.
>
> <grin>
> I hate to burst your bubble, but that prolly wasn't the cause--using a
> weakened joint was. Most times, it's lax shoulder muscles allowing
> the humerus to wobble in its socket and pinch the tendons till they
> get REALLY annoyed and/or tear.
>
> Like sawing a strip of leather back and forth across a big rock.
>
> When you progress up to free weights (hmmm...I think they have band
> exercises, too) have a look at:
> http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
>
>>Moving 3 yards of bark mulch didn't
>>help. Nor did moving the gravel from the front driveway to the back
>>yard. Setting the pavers will just have to wait. We'll see how it's
>>going in a couple of weeks.
>
> Be patient, I doona think 2 weeks is near enough time to heal.
> Cartilage takes a long time cuz of poor blood flow.
>
>>I do NOT want surgery.
>
> I hear ya; most of the ones I know who've gone that route (complete
> tears, total loss of arm function like reaching behind or overhead)
> were permanently limited. Plus, the guys in rehab cried almost as
> loud recouping from shoulder surgery as they did from knee rehabs.
Ever hear of morphine?
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