That would be.......................................me. Diagnosed today with a tear in my left rotator cuff. Had the right one done about 7-8 years ago. Compared to many of my other surgeries this is a walk in the park. They figure 6-8 weeks recoup time. Surgery date is scheduled for the morning of June 5th. I should be back on the boards by the evening of June 5th. Now......GO FUCKING YANKEES!!!
Hope it goes as well as can be.... Can't keep a good man down. And ....GO YOU FUKN YANKEES! I want you in first place when Rick returns...you sonamabeeches
Damn Rick you got more defects than a new Chevy, get in the garage, get rebuilt and back on the road. Hope all goes well
Michael you're right. this will be my 2nd shoulder surgery to go along with 2 hip surgeries, right wrist, left hand, left knee, right foot, quadruple by pass surgery, 7 stints, 3 kidney procedures & just for laughs 16 back operations. If anyone is due for a complete over haul its me. BUT....Knock on wood 61 next week & still going strong. Well maybe not strong but still going.
Best of luck to ya' Rick.....I re-tore my LH about 8 months ago, for the 2nd time, the Surgeon seeing a lot of prior scar tissue, said lets PT it, and I went along. PT hasn't done a damn thing for it either, and I really don't want another scalpel to touch this body again, if I can help it........(RH had 3 cuff & mass removals, a freaking nightmare of a story, which ended in the Surgeon having to break the shoulder to hinge it open..........)
Rick, I hope these torn rotator cuffs will teach you a lesson to stop trying to pat yourself on the back all the time. Now which hospital so I can hack your file and schedule you for a brucilla Jenner.
Believe it or not the biggest pain in the ass to this surgery will be switching to the other side of the bed.
Believe it, lived through it. Never did the surgery, did the rehab as the left rc is partially torn. I glad I avoided getting cut and was able to regain function. But I had to learn to sleep on the otherside, pain in the ass. I rearranged the bedroom and put my preferred side up against a wall, then filled that side with one of those bed length pillows so you don't roll back onto the injured shoulder.
I hear you Tom but this is not my first dance with this shit, I had my right shoulder done about 8 years ago & had to switch sides then, so basically I'll just be going back to the side I started on.
Why is it, one can go to the Kerlan Jobe Clinic, Founders and Creators of the TJ Surgery, but if your not a ball player, don't ever expect TJ like surgeries on any joint, with replacement tendons, ligaments, unless your a Movie Star or Ball Player....a double standard of practice, one for the filthy rich athletes, the other for the Public.....regardless of how good one's insurance is, nothing beats the swearing of Money.....$$$$ what drives these fkn Doc's..... In only 4 years, (91-95), I had 3 RH Rotator Cuff Repair Surgeries, 2 of those included removing a 11 inch long, 2.8 diameter, Mass. A Synovial growth, began in the bursa, when it tore, the fluid, created its own bladder, snaking in a S shape, from the socket, into the spinoglenoid notch. The S shaped mass; bulged out of the bottom of the Clavicle. Twice this occurred, 2 surgeries in one. The last time, the Mass grew back bigger than before, causing my Surgeon (at Kerlan-Jobe [Dr. Yocum] Kerlan and Jobes replacement, TJ specialist) to break the Acromion and Scapula, to hinge out the arm out of the socket, to allow access to the growths end, again, bulging out from under the Scapula. 3each, 2 1/4" long, screws hold the RH shoulder together......no tendons or ligaments were replaced, thus both shoulders hang out of their socket too often, upon over extension, or even sleeping on them....( a constant nagging pain)...... 1 LH Cuff repair in 95, re-tore it last Oct. Have been in PT twice & currently, along with Cortisone Shots, yet pain is a daily, minute by minute affair. PT is not working, I refuse the knife, but may yet have to, as this LH arm, is becoming useless, with additional tears in the sub-scapula, and rib cage area, down to the LH Hip, which also needs a Hip Prosthetic, yet I am not up for that shit, not until I can't walk......most tendons in both shoulders were cleaned up, or now missing; but unlike TJ surgery, no additional tendons or ligaments were replaced nor the shoulder rebuilt..... My point simple, after 3 RH Shoulder Cuff & other conditions, 1 LH Repair, with a current tear, undergoing PT which is netting me nothing........ I can't sleep on any shoulders without waking up with a dead arm & extreme pain, Thus sleeping on ones back, is the best one can do, when you have no other choice..... and yes, those long pillows are a necessity, after surgery, on both sides if possible..... IN those same years, add 1 LH Shattered Ankle, and Surgery, (and its still fucked up). 1 Umbilical Hernia Repair...... Every day is a challenge......
Sorry about the Novel, Brothers Karamazov, but I can't stand by idle on this kind of stuff.......Rick is the Surgery King, he's had more than anyone I know. I thought I was invincible until I turned 35, then the wheels begin to fall off...... I won't even mention, the Discetomies, from S1 to L2, then T12 to T9....... NTM- a MRSA fiasco, that took a Month of Quarnatine, a Pic Line, with Vanco, (80% of peoples bodies reject Vanco)......6 more weeks at home on the Pic Line, numerous abcess scars in 6 locations along the spine, resulting in excessive scar tissue riding on the sciatic........they had to close without stitching, creating a mess.....I won't mention the 3 Medtronic Neuro Stims, (which caused the MRSA), but hell I already DID mention it...........sorry, I can't help myself on these issues..... I'm off my stand now.........101 and done......!!!
