Well, it's been about two weeks now and things seem to be going fairly well. Start PT finally on Tuesday.

I'll have one good day, do a bit too much and then have a fairly bad day the next, kind of a wicked circle. But I can tell you it is maddeningly frustrating having your dominant hand unavailable for most things. Went back to work last Monday and typing and writing were a real challenge. I suppose I could have taken several weeks off as short term disablilty at 2/3 pay but I just couldn't afford that. So i took 4 vacation days.

As for the surgery, went pretty much according to plan about 2.25 hrs. According to the surgeon this time the right side labrum was in even worse shape than the left. If you can see it in the photos below, it pretty much looks like a horse's mane, all shredded. 1st pic across and 1st in 2nd row.

But I think things will go much better this time for recovery.

As I mentioned to Cody:

1. I was mentally prepared for the outcome of this surgery, I was not last time. I asked for this

2. I no longer have a lot of the compensations that I did last time which caused complications in PT

3. I’m able to identify different pains now as being normal or not and can feel confident of how I’m convalescing

4. All the work I’ve put in to stabilizing the shoulders is paying off and I can identify what I feel and the body can now move more normally.

5. despite the pain I’m more positive and not so “why me?”

The second set shows the Labrum Trimmed up and the threads of the repair to tighten it up that were anchored to the Scapula.
Third set shows the work done to begin grinding off the bone spur(last pic).



Pretty Kewl the pics they can take these days. I have glossies from 2.5 yrs ago and the resolution on these is way better in just that short time.