bleujazz3
Fractal Fanatic
Hey, All,
It's been about a week's time since I've posted much anything of merit to this forum...and with good reason.
Tuesday the 21st I arrived home from my evening meeting, and spent about 45 minutes until 11:30 prepping for bed. I was tired; a good tired from doing an honest day's work plus socializing at our meeting where we learn stuff.
Anyway, got into bed and tried sleeping partially on my left shoulder. Slept through the entire evening, not waking or needing a bathroom break.
Wednesday morning, I awoke to the most horrendous left shoulder pain (6 to 7 out of 10, on a 1-10 scale) imaginable. Could barely lift, move, facilitate, rotate, extend my left arm at all. Iced the son of a gun and took 2 Aleve 12 hours apart.
Spoke with my primary Thursday who diagnosed the shoulder as a frozen or encapsulated shoulder, with X-Rays. The doc said the shoulder will need physical therapy for a while with follow-up on my part each day.
My basic concern is that this will impede my ability to do my regular part-time job for several work-shifts during the next 3 weeks. I'm not sure how to approach this with my boss as he's somewhat short-handed employee hours anyway. My age is 65; I see no need for retiring from my job anytime soon, but just need some words of advice how the next 3 to 6 months might need scheduling to allow for physical therapy twice a week, and each day with home therapy.
Until physical therapy can be scheduled, I'll need to ask the boss to halve my part-time work schedule and distribute the work hours among fellow employees. This will continue until the 3rd week of June.
Meanwhile, my normal activities (driving, grocery shopping, meetings, work, household chores, gardening, guitar practice, most all of my free time) require rest and icing of the shoulder. While the doc said to keep the arm and shoulder mobile as much as possible, no pain-relievers can solve the hurt I feel now. This might take quite a while of PT. Prayers and mojo requested.
Thanks for reading.
- Bob (bleujazz3)
It's been about a week's time since I've posted much anything of merit to this forum...and with good reason.
Tuesday the 21st I arrived home from my evening meeting, and spent about 45 minutes until 11:30 prepping for bed. I was tired; a good tired from doing an honest day's work plus socializing at our meeting where we learn stuff.
Anyway, got into bed and tried sleeping partially on my left shoulder. Slept through the entire evening, not waking or needing a bathroom break.
Wednesday morning, I awoke to the most horrendous left shoulder pain (6 to 7 out of 10, on a 1-10 scale) imaginable. Could barely lift, move, facilitate, rotate, extend my left arm at all. Iced the son of a gun and took 2 Aleve 12 hours apart.
Spoke with my primary Thursday who diagnosed the shoulder as a frozen or encapsulated shoulder, with X-Rays. The doc said the shoulder will need physical therapy for a while with follow-up on my part each day.
My basic concern is that this will impede my ability to do my regular part-time job for several work-shifts during the next 3 weeks. I'm not sure how to approach this with my boss as he's somewhat short-handed employee hours anyway. My age is 65; I see no need for retiring from my job anytime soon, but just need some words of advice how the next 3 to 6 months might need scheduling to allow for physical therapy twice a week, and each day with home therapy.
Until physical therapy can be scheduled, I'll need to ask the boss to halve my part-time work schedule and distribute the work hours among fellow employees. This will continue until the 3rd week of June.
Meanwhile, my normal activities (driving, grocery shopping, meetings, work, household chores, gardening, guitar practice, most all of my free time) require rest and icing of the shoulder. While the doc said to keep the arm and shoulder mobile as much as possible, no pain-relievers can solve the hurt I feel now. This might take quite a while of PT. Prayers and mojo requested.
Thanks for reading.
- Bob (bleujazz3)
