I Bid You All Adieu!

[LowKey]

I think they wanted pikturs of aflineman's painted toenails...LOL.
Good to hear you're back up and ready to rock.
Learn offhand shooting. Might be a new skill?

[Sparky93]

Wishing you a fast recovery!

[Phaedrus]

I'm glad you're still on the mend. Hopefully you'll be back shootin' again before long.

[2dumb2kwit]

all systems go. aok. bigger than expected. part of collar bone removed. part of shoulder blade removed. tendon repaired. tendons released in hand. drugs good. morning coffee at 2pm bad. hong saved. hazmat team does good work. brain fried. see u tomorrow.

They did what, with your tenderloin? LOL

Get better fast, Rick. It's scary to think that I can out type you. LOL

[Rick]

The blasted collar bone is the worst part of it. Hardly any pain just can't touch my collar bone with screaming like a little girl. Ice is your friend.

[BENESSE]

Having had my shoulder broken twice (no surgery) I was curious about what led you to need to have surgery.
With the ski season upon us and me going for it, I am painfully aware that if/when I take a spill I might not get so lucky.

[Rick]

This is my 4th right rotator repair. The first one tore due to fall. Once you tear one then the percentage for a retear is very high (sorry, Crash). The bone was remove to create a larger channel for the rotator hoping it won't happen again plus arthritis in channel, which leads to rotator irritation and tearing.

Left torn in fall out of attic. I tore it again this summer lifting the grass bag off the lawn mower. 8 pounds? Just the wrong angle I guess. Still have to get it done and left hand.

Just a bump in the road. We'll go to a VA rehab center or burn center and see some folks with problems. I don't have any.

It's my understanding that once a broken bone heals the break is the strongest part of bone because of amount of calcium laid down. You might break it somewhere else but not in same location if healed correctly.

[2dumb2kwit]

This is my 4th right rotator repair. The first one tore due to fall. Once you tear one then the percentage for a retear is very high (sorry, Crash). The bone was remove to create a larger channel for the rotator hoping it won't happen again plus arthritis in channel, which leads to rotator irritation and tearing.

Left torn in fall out of attic. I tore it again this summer lifting the grass bag off the lawn mower. 8 pounds? Just the wrong angle I guess. Still have to get it done and left hand.

Just a bump in the road. We'll go to a VA rehab center or burn center and see some folks with problems. I don't have any.

It's my understanding that once a broken bone heals the break is the strongest part of bone because of amount of calcium laid down. You might break it somewhere else but not in same location if healed correctly.

That still doesn't explain about your tenderloin.
(Probably has something to do with wearing a thong.)

[Rick]

It was the extraction of the hong that caused the pain. They had a choice of C4, a crane or acetone.They wound up using all three. I guess I need to stop wearing steel belted hongs but I considered it a safety issue. If that baby would ever snap while others are around it would make for some ugly headlines and no doubt leave a mark.

[BENESSE]

It was the extraction of the hong that caused the pain. They had a choice of C4, a crane or acetone.They wound up using all three. I guess I need to stop wearing steel belted hongs but I considered it a safety issue. If that baby would ever snap while others are around it would make for some ugly headlines and no doubt leave a mark.

Sounds like a chastity belt to me. I guess Mrs. Rick has her reasons for making you wear one.

[Rick]

Let's just say the winch on the hong has a purpose.........I'd never get up the stairs otherwise.

[crashdive123]

Let's just say the winch on the hong has a purpose.........I'd never get up the stairs otherwise.

Nope. Not going there. Too easy.

[BENESSE]

It's my understanding that once a broken bone heals the break is the strongest part of bone because of amount of calcium laid down. You might break it somewhere else but not in same location if healed correctly.

That's exactly right and I've seen the evidence of it on multiple X-rays.
I'm scheduled to see my shoulder Doc this Tue. (ahead of ski vacation) to get some answers on why my shoulder hurts when I move it a certain way (while I have a full range of motion and can put equal weight on it as the other one-yoga 3X/wk) and what, if anything, I need to do to make it better.

[2dumb2kwit]

That's exactly right and I've seen the evidence of it on multiple X-rays.
I'm scheduled to see my shoulder Doc this Tue. (ahead of ski vacation) to get some answers on why my shoulder hurts when I move it a certain way (while I have a full range of motion and can put equal weight on it as the other one-yoga 3X/wk) and what, if anything, I need to do to make it better.

If I ate yogurt 3x a week, I'd need a doctor and a plumber.

[BENESSE]

If I ate yogurt 3x a week, I'd need a doctor and a plumber.

Just a wild guess here...I think you need a roto rooter with all that bacon.
A plumber has you on a no call list.

[Highhawk1948]

Prayers from us at the Highhawk Ranch.

[Rick]

You are doing the right thing in my opinion and that's discussing it with you doc.Sounds like an impingement issue but an MRI should tell them. Not a lot of room inside the shoulder. Toss in some extra calcium, bone spurs and/or scar tissue and you start squeezing stuff pretty easily.

[nell67]

Horrible setback in my recovery. My wife just broke the news to me that I can not shoot a long gun for 1 year! Oh the humanity! I'm already in withdrawl.

B - Think about this. Do you REALLY want pictures? I am sans shirt and trussed up. But it is after dinner so you shouldn't get too sick.

Same here Rick,they say a year before they consider it a complete recovery,since they removed one of the vertebrae,they did take pieces of the vertebrae and reinsert it with the rods and plate,I am on a high calcium diet for the next 12 months,I have however gave up on the one a day vitamins I am supposed to be taking,because they were making me very ill. Glad you are up and about.

[Rick]

Did they install a titanium cage in place of the one they removed? They seed it with your bone and it rebuilds using the cage as a lattice. Really cool sci-fi stuff these days.

[randyt]

Ya know Rick, I bet if you had known you were going to live so dadgum long you would have taken better care of your self. <G>