John Pollman
04-19-2005, 9:25 AM
Well I haven't been here in almost six weeks. I think the last time I posted was just after my first surgery for my broken shoulder. I guess I was foolishly optimistic because I felt pretty good at the time I made the post. I think it went something like "I should be back to normal a lot sooner than I thought". I think when I made that post was just a few hours after returning home from surgery and as I said before I felt pretty good. But then the pain killers wore off. :eek:
This has been the worst 6 weeks of my life ! They ended up putting three 4" screws into my shoulder to hold it together. After about three weeks one of them decided it didn't want to be covered up anymore and it cut through the skin and was protruding out the top of my shoulder ! Well at that time it was only about a week from my scheduled surgery to remove them so they just gave me some antibiotics and told me to keep it clean and covered and they'd take it out at the normal scheduled time.
Well the second surgery went well and I didn't have any trouble. I had my first post-op visit with the surgeon and he took more xrays and told me that I'm healing up very well. Which is good but I've already been unable to work for 6 weeks and he said that it'll probably be at least another eight weeks until I can return to any kind of "normal" work. And even then, it's going to have to be light duty for a while. The bad part is that the job I was on when I got hurt is a 950 square foot suspended ceiling. I'm about 75% done but I think it's going to be a while until I'll be able to finish it. Luckily, the customer is being very understanding and she said I can wait until I'm ready to get it done.
Well I'm starting physical therapy today. My first appointment is in a couple of hours and I'll tell ya I can't wait for this whole mess to be over with but I'm NOT looking forward to PT. The way I feel right now I know that PT is going to hurt like heck. I've got very little range of motion in my injured shoulder and I'm sure hoping that the therapist can help with that. I know it's only been 6 weeks since the accident but I'm a bit scared that things may not get back to normal the way I'm feeling right now. If that happens, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to be able to do the work I've been doing without full use of my arm. I guess it may be a little early to be thinking like that but I've never had an injury like this and I'm just a bit worried. Well thanks for letting me vent a bit. It helps to "talk" about it a bit. Hopefully PT will progress well and I'll be back to work soon. I'll try to get back here a little more often and check in. Unfortunately in my condition I can't really do any woodworking and such so I guess I'll just have to come here and live vicariously though your stories. :)
Thanks again for letting me vent. Talk to ya soon !
Take care all,
John
This has been the worst 6 weeks of my life ! They ended up putting three 4" screws into my shoulder to hold it together. After about three weeks one of them decided it didn't want to be covered up anymore and it cut through the skin and was protruding out the top of my shoulder ! Well at that time it was only about a week from my scheduled surgery to remove them so they just gave me some antibiotics and told me to keep it clean and covered and they'd take it out at the normal scheduled time.
Well the second surgery went well and I didn't have any trouble. I had my first post-op visit with the surgeon and he took more xrays and told me that I'm healing up very well. Which is good but I've already been unable to work for 6 weeks and he said that it'll probably be at least another eight weeks until I can return to any kind of "normal" work. And even then, it's going to have to be light duty for a while. The bad part is that the job I was on when I got hurt is a 950 square foot suspended ceiling. I'm about 75% done but I think it's going to be a while until I'll be able to finish it. Luckily, the customer is being very understanding and she said I can wait until I'm ready to get it done.
Well I'm starting physical therapy today. My first appointment is in a couple of hours and I'll tell ya I can't wait for this whole mess to be over with but I'm NOT looking forward to PT. The way I feel right now I know that PT is going to hurt like heck. I've got very little range of motion in my injured shoulder and I'm sure hoping that the therapist can help with that. I know it's only been 6 weeks since the accident but I'm a bit scared that things may not get back to normal the way I'm feeling right now. If that happens, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not going to be able to do the work I've been doing without full use of my arm. I guess it may be a little early to be thinking like that but I've never had an injury like this and I'm just a bit worried. Well thanks for letting me vent a bit. It helps to "talk" about it a bit. Hopefully PT will progress well and I'll be back to work soon. I'll try to get back here a little more often and check in. Unfortunately in my condition I can't really do any woodworking and such so I guess I'll just have to come here and live vicariously though your stories. :)
Thanks again for letting me vent. Talk to ya soon !
Take care all,
John