Monday, October 24, 2011

SHOULDER SURGERY

For a good year now i have been livin life with a crappy right shoulder.  I injured it a year ago initially playing Volleyball.  Then after continuous use of my shoulder from playing More Volleyball, Coaching Volleyball, and Doing repetitive shoulder motions from doing Hair everyday has caused a crazy Mess in this here shoulder of mine.  So....i finally went to a Shoulder Surgeon Specialist to figure out what the heck is wrong with it cause it kept getting worse and worse.  Apparently I had multiple bone spurs in my shoulder and into my collar bone area, my bursa sac was inflamed (which cushions between the top shoulder bone and the rotator cuff) and part of my bone was impinging down on my rotator cuff causing Pain and a partial tear.  I also had lots of Calcification in my shoulder from all of this goin on!  They were able to remove the bone spurs and the inflamed bursa, shave down the part of my bone that was ruffing up my rotator cuff, smooth out the tear in the cuff and FIX er' up!  Yay.  Luckily they were able to do it "arthoscopically" instead of having to CUT me open which would have been bad.  It's a MUCH faster recovery arthoscopically than the other way around!  It will have been a full week on tuesday since my surgery.  My shoulder still HURTS but i guess in recovery that is normal.  I'm gonna start doing hair tomorrow but i can't do any blowdrying/styling for 6 weeks.  I feel bad but my clients are very understanding!
Coming out of anesthetic was quite amusing i guess because i was loopy and said hi to noah about 5 times consecutively   Apparently I am a total lightweight when it comes to Anesthetic and pain medication.  I was throwing up constantly and could barely keep my pain meds down.  After day 3 i went off the hard stuff to tylenol & advil.  Cause the more intense pain wasn't nearly as bad as being so nauseous and throwing up every 5 seconds!  (i hope when i'm preggo someday that i'm not a sick girl cause i do NOT like that)
But I have a very loving husband who took GREAT care of me!!  He would wake up at night to feed me something before i took my pain meds and wait for me to get some food in my stomach after throwing up each time to give me my pain meds.  he is such a doll considering he CAN NOT STAND throwing up.  But he stood by my side and held my puke bucket, then he would go rinse it out and come back and kiss me.  Oh i am lucky.  My mom also was there at my beckoning call!  She came and stayed with me also while aaron was at work and school and took care of me!  A girl will Always need her momma no matter what we say!!  But i just hope that it progresses fast!  I've been kindof a whimp about it, aaron can vouch for that!  The worst part is not having Strength in that arm...its' a weird feeling being incapable to do much with your dominant arm.  But i am getting better and stronger each day!  Thanks to all of ya who included me in prayers and checked in on me!  I deffinantly felt the love, and i'm just excited it's over with and am on to getting better so i can get playing volleyball again soon!!
Right before they put me out

My Pups Daughty Dog sleeping with me
she was very concerned. haha
oh and my blue puke bucket on the left

my lovely husband and one of the many dinners he made for us
taking such good care of me always. love him.

aaron says..."just a couple bullet holes"
can't wait to get the stiches out, they Itch like crazy!
glad it's over.


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