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Stephen and Warren, I hope you both do well.
Those icy parking lots can be treacherous . We had an unusual freeze up here in Oregon...streets cleared of snow but the parking lots had sheets of ice. This 80 year old grabbed a nearby shopping cart and used it like a walker....worked like a charm. I noticed the young ones didn't seem to need one:(:cry:.
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Steve,
It's been a treacherous year for ice. Sorry to hear about your slip and fall. This getting old thing isn't for wimp.
Warren - Best to you too on your spur.
It's tough to get use to a "new normal" everyday. Ya'll be careful out there!
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Hope all is well.The problem with getting older is you pay for all those falls you took as a youngster.
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I fell in October, landing on my shoulder on grass. Thought nothing of it until a day later when I had the worst pain I've ever endured. Now diagnosed as rotator cuff tear. Decided not to go through the surgery and rehab at my age. Just got the cortisone shot and am doing PT, with pain gone for now and increasing mobility in the shoulder. It is true that old age is not for sissies!
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Always mindful that our bodies are getting older. At 70 going on 71 soon and living with a wife 7 years my senior I understand that growing old is not for the faint of heart. Praying for Steve and Warren. However, despite the fact we are all getting older that does not mean the end of our lives. Keep moving, be careful and give thanks for each day that God grants.
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Steven, take care of yourself. I slipped stepping down into my living room back in September. I found stretching exercise helped to regain my range of motion. Talk to your doctor about stretching exercises you can do.
Warren, I hope the bone spur doesn't lay you up. I know how much fly fishing is your gift to others.
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Gravity is a reliable but treacherous friend. Although I am sorry to hear about your injury, I am glad it is not worse than it is. At the age of 30 I did a half somersault onto a brick floor in a packing house, out like a light, a dozen stitches but no damage to the brain that has been verified. A former work colleague’s husband is in a wheelchair for life from a similar fall. Falls are a leading cause of injury and death. It all depends on how and what you hit.
There are 9 or 10 factors that determine the safety of a walkway, age, distractions and substance on the walkway are some of them.
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First, I want to thank everyone who kept me in their thoughts and prayers. The first surgery I have ever had in my life is now over! Since I am right handed and the shoulder surgery was on my right shoulder, I can only type this with my left hand and that makes typing a very hunt and peck and slow poject! The surgery went very well. The surgeon I had was a wonerful man and he likes to fly fish! : ) All the stories others had told me about the pain I would feel with insertion of the IV and the shoulder Nerve Blocker did not happen. I did not feel either one. The nurse told me that they inject Lanacane(sp) first for both of these so their patients would be as close as possible to pain free. The surgeon brought my wife into the room before I was to go into the surgery and had her hold one of my hands and he held the other one and he prayed that God would grant me a smooth surgery, fast recovery and to guide his hands to do the best to do his best surgery! How's that for a good surgeon?! After surgery, he told me that he was so thankful that I had my shoulder pain checked out as soon as I did, because he did not expect to have to do anything except grind down a bone spur and clean up the area. Once he inserted the camera and started to look the area over real good, he found a very small tear on my rotator cuff tendon caused by the bone spur which would have gotton worst and would have developed to a ripped rotator cuff tendon which, once repaired, would have prolonged my recovery time to months before I would be able to take him fly fishing! He said the small tear was so small that he was able to repair it with one small sitch, grind down the bone spur and clean up the area. He said if I would follow his instructions and do the therapy, I should be well on my way to recovery in 4-6 weeks. He told me to keep my arm in a sling for at least 4 weeks. I start therapy this Monday and scheduled for 3 times per week and am scheduled to see the surgeon for a post-op check up on Feb. 10th. I am home and on pain pills when I feel I need them and doing very well.
Folks, make sure, if you have shoulder pain upon lifting your arm or reaching out, go to a doctor and have a MRI done to see if you have a bone spur or a small tear in your rotator cuff tendon because therapy and cortizone shots will not make the ncessary repairs. The shot will only deaden the area so you will not feel any pain and during that time you will only cause more damage which will need extensive repairs.
Thank you, my FAOL family. I will be lurking and not posting much, but, I will be back!
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Glad everything went well. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Bob
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