Dewey’s BodyBlog

Had my shoulder surgery yesterday morning. I got to the hospital just before 6 am. And I was wheeled in to surgery a little after 8 am. When the knock out doctor, can’t spell his title, gave me the knock out drops, I started laughing. When began to feel the affects is when I started laughing which made him start laughing. He also gave me what is called a blocker. To block the nerves in my arm. So when I was taken into surgey I thought my arm was in one place when was caught in the bars of the bed. Weird… Last thing I remember was moving over from the bed to the surgical table and adjusting my head. Then I woke up with my shoulder all wrapped up and my arm in a sling with a cushion between my arm and abomen. A nurse was sitting next to me asked how I felt. I open and closed my eyes to clear out the blur. I had a soar throat. I didn’t relize that they had put a tube down my throat. It’s still a little soar. I’ve been drinking a lot of Sprite. Can’t drink water bacause that hurts. So I had woke up after 10 am and was home about 1130 am. What was really wierd was my arm was completely dead. Oh, it was my left shoulder. By late evening I was getting feeling back. So far I’ve only taken 1 pain pill. And that was just before bed time. So far, so good. I wont get to shower until tomorrow afternoon, sucks. But it’s all good. I am glad I finally got this fixed. I’m looking forward to getting back to working out. That may be a long wait.

Getting my shoulder scoped tomorrow morning. Need to be at the hospital at 6 am and the surgery is at 8:30 am. I have a tear in my labrum. (slap tear) And some bone impingement. So it’ll be about 3 weeks to heal, then start PT. Therapy will be about 6-8 weeks. So hopefully by August I’ll be back to working out again. Also looking forward to getting back out on the golf course again. I’ve waited way too long to get this done. I will be very happy when it’s over with.

work outs for a while. I finally got scheduled for my shoulder sugery, Apr. 29th. Getting the slap tear repaired. Going in to get blood work done next week. Then on the 29th I have to be at the hospital at 5:30 am. And I’m second in line that day. Gotta be there 4-5 hrs before the sugery for prep. Recovery should be about 3 weeks or until the staples come out. Then rehab starts. After 3-4 months of that, hopefully I’ll be able to get back to excercising. Not full force, mind you. Just slowly work my way back in. Have see what my physical therapist thinks first. I’m sure I’ll put on a few pounds and my bf will increase. That will be interesting to monitor. My OS says I may not be back to 100% for maybe 9 months to a year.

Wish me luck…