The Cellar / Forget my thumb, be not sorry about my shoulder

**Posted by footfootfoot** 9/15/2022 8:38 am

The short and bitter of it is I tore the shit out of my shoulder yesterday. I'm waiting to hear back from my surgeon about the next steps. The same surgeon who fixed it ten yeas ago. I have a vague recollection that outcomes for rotator cuff surgery aren't great as you age. Something or other about the quality of the tissue not be so youthful and spritely.
Luckily, I had just completed re-roofing the section of my house that was leaking. (15 year roof - part of a class action lawsuit for overstating the lifespan of shingles: allegedly 30 years)

However there are numerous other home maintenance and construction projects on the docket, not to mention work work (painting) that I can no longer do since my dominant arm is the victim? casualty?

So, be not sorry for my thumb nor my shoulder.

**Posted by monster** 9/15/2022 5:42 pm

Should be sorry for other parts of your body that will no longer be able to receive attention from the dominant arm?

I am of course referring to things like toenails that will go unclipped.............

**Posted by griff** 9/16/2022 6:40 am

I read this not 15 seconds after rubbing lidocain into my non-dominant shoulder this morning. Sorry man. Was this a tear that got worse over time from repetitive use or a one wrong move injury?

**Posted by footfootfoot** 9/16/2022 8:13 am

luckily, again, i had just clipped my toenails and i am mostly ambidextrous...This was the result of a combination of things, two RC tears, a surgery, more partial tears from use, and a catastrophic failure just the other day. seeing the surgeon on the 22nd.

**Posted by griff** 9/16/2022 9:16 am

Christ what a drag.

**Posted by fargon** 9/16/2022 9:22 am

Ouch!!!

**Posted by monster** 9/16/2022 8:14 pm

I'm still not sorry about it, though. Not that I'll admit to, anyway. good luck! Shoulder problems are also my bugbear.

**Posted by footfootfoot** 9/24/2022 4:53 pm

Saw the sturgeon and he said, yeah, it's probably all fucked up. We can't say for sure until the ins. co. approves the MRI, and there's a chance we might not even be able to fix it. I guess tendons can get like frayed rope and there's not really any way to sew frayed rope to bone.
Waiting on the ins. co.

**Posted by monster** 9/24/2022 9:38 pm

sorry, not sorry. but I wish this was not a thing for you.