The final (hopefully) shoulder update
Oct 29th, 2008 by admin
Well it’s been nearly 6 months to the day since I injured my shoulder. It has taken that long for it to heal. Let it be known that the shoulder takes LONGER than any other body area to heal! That and the back, which I threw out last week. That’s an entirely separate post. Eh I’ll write it here. Bottom line: shoulder is almost entirely healed. I still favor it out of habit when doing certain things. That was a hard hard lesson learned in how to correctly assume push-up position. Still though, it was just the perfect, freak, circumstances that led to it. Even the doctor said it was random and kind of freakish. Well, it is true, I am a freak.
So my back. Yes, I did something to my back last week and it hurt pretty solidly up until Saturday night. I went to a gathering of friends that evening and proceeded to drink and get a little “wooo”. That was fun but I noticed that no amount of inebriation helped my back. I knew it was going to be a long night once I got home.
So we got home and took care of home things… At that point I tried to lay down. My back was throbbing at this point. Nothing helped. I was on the verge of passing out at one point. I finally got up and started walking around which seemed to help a tad. I grabbed 4 advil and 2 benadryl and popped them all at the same time. One for pain and the other to just plain knock my ass out. I knew one or the other would have to happen. It worked. Finally, around 4am I drifted into sleep. I’d already made me mind up (yes, me mind, yar! I’m a pirate!) that I was headed to the family medical center over near Belks.
I walked in at 1pm sharp. Filled all the paperwork out and then waited. After about 20 minutes got called back. Waited about 10 more minutes and the doc came in. We went over the routine. He poked around, pushed around, tested reflexes, etc. He concluded that nothing seemed serious. It’s just that a back will protest very highly if thrown out of whack. So he ordered some shots. Big, fat, steroid shots. The needles were 3″ long. I couldn’t look. Needles don’t bother me but geez! Anyhow, it was actually painless minus some burning. I got some pills for the road and for help with sleep … mmm zzzz.
I’d say within the hour the back was noticeably feeling better. Today it’s still a little stiff but it’s vastly better than it was a couple of days ago. I am certainly not getting any younger! I told the doctor that I’m reminded on a weekly basis that time doesn’t run backwards.
