I graduated from PT today! It seems the time I took off from doing silks and PT while away at Burning Man gave it time to do the final bit of healing. Went in today and had 98% range of motion! A good deal of gaining the last bit of motion probably could have come much earlier, but it involved figuring out the proper way to initiate movement. Odd ( Read more... )

Merry-go-round: It now has a name! It is officially Blinky-go-round. I put it in to the the art placement people at Burning Man. I asked for help from the DPW requesting that they trench 500' from the village generator out to it. Seems like that should not be a problem. Even better I just got an Email from LadyBee saying that it looked really nice ( Read more... )

Shoulder/Biceps: I got clearance today from both my physical therapist and surgeon to climb silks again! This is with restrictions....no dropping on it and avoid contorting while putting stress on it. Yay 6 weeks and 3 days after the shoulder surgery. Originally I was told this would be 4-6 months. Yay for fast healing. The surgeon wants to seem me ( Read more... )

Today I rode my bicycle to work for the first time since the shoulder surgery 4.5 weeks ago. Riding was no problem whatsoever! I am very pleased with the speed of my recovery. When I first talked to the Doc he figured it would be 3-4 months before I would be able to ride a bike again. Yay for fast recovery. Some areas of motion still give me ( Read more... )

The good: Saw the doc yesterday, for my week and a half follow up to my shoulder surgery. I was expecting him to be upset with me because I stopped wearing my sling after 3 days. I stopped wearing it because it was giving me bad posture that caused my shoulder to be more painful rather than less. The opposite was true. He was quite pleased that I ( Read more... )

Yep I am back in a sling again. Shoulder was operated on this morning. All went well. Apparently he did a fair amount of work on it while he was in there. Repairing torn cartilage and reattaching part of the rotator cuff. This hurts a bit more than the biceps did. I have a feeling I will be hitting the percocet a bit harder this time around. Just ( Read more... )

To repair my biceps the doc drilled a hole in my radius, sewed a piece of metal shaped like an 8 or the side of a link of bicycle chain to the detached tendon, passed it through the hole and turned it sideways like a toggle bolt. Recovery from the surgery has been amazing. Very little pain in the day or so after the surgery. Left the percs behind ( Read more... )

Splint came off today! I can almost straighten my arm. I'm missing about 90 degrees of rotation of the forearm, and it is rather weak, but the doc was happy enough with the results that he agreed to move my shoulder operation up a week! I go in next Friday (18th) to get the shoulder done. Hopefully I wont break anything else in the meanwhile ;) So ( Read more... )

I am getting my shoulder operated on tomorrow, to fix a torn labrum and rotator. I think they will also reattach my biceps then too. Funny thing is I went to the the doctor weeks ago because of small pain and loss of range of motion, that had not gotten better after I injured myself last August. Since the diagnosis things have gotten much better in ( Read more... )

I go in to get my shoulder cut on the 27th. (Torn rotator and labrum plus a bunch of bits floating around in it) 2-4 weeks in a sling and then up to six months of PT, then maybe I will have a shoulder again ( Read more... )