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I am doing what I am told, yesserie!

I am also starting therapy 2 months early, I am lifting my arm past 90° already, shocked my therapist when the Doc told him I was starting therapy only 3 weeks after surgery.

I want to throw out the sling already, but I have the intellectual knowlege of what they did to me, so, I will keep it until I am told otherwise.

They had to rebuild the whole shoulder, I am shocked, SHOCKED, that I am not in pain right now, that I can move as easily as I can when I passively move my arm.

However, there is no strength yet, and I aint rushing that.

Plus, they re-attached my Bicep tendon to my upper arm instead of my shoulder where it is supposed to be, so I have 2 pins, one in the shoulder for my infraspinitus and supraspinitus, and the other in my arm for my bicep tendon.

That in itself is a reason to slwo down! The bone has to form over the pin and heal in place, that is the glue that will hold in the pins after it sets. But all the tendon smoothing they did, the grinding down of the Glenoid Process and the Labrum, the smoothing of torn tendons in those areas, I would be an idiot to rush it.

It will be August before I can comb my hair with my right hand I think, maybe mid July. There is a milestone I am waiting for that is personal, but I guess I will just have to use the left hand for hygiene...(sigh)