I'm still alive.....

laboo · Boobs

I'm still alive.....

Photogrrlz · Buttercup Groupie

Good to hear that your doing okay.... Sucks though that there was more wrong with it then you thought....

Hope to see you more, I bet your typing with one arm aren't you...lol

Buttercup · Monkey Proof is Beautiful yet hideous

Hey Laboo, good to see you here and it's good they were able to repair everything. Take care and we'll see you soon.

Operator13 · TC's Number One Fan

Get well soon!

Bread Styx · Bad Bread!!

Oh wow.....hope you are doing well.

Take care, listen to the doctor and rest!

texaschickeee · Seductively Sassy

take care of yourself laboo

and glad that you got it all taken care of.....

USofAcop · Banned

LAHOO?

laboo · Boobs

thanks everyone, yes Photo I'm typing one handed but I'm not up-chucking in the front yard anymore. I do wounder what the neighbors think

texaschickeee · Seductively Sassy

let them thik what they want....

or better yet, if they got a problem, let them do the work for ya.

BlahBlahBlah · I Love Baseball

Hope you feel better soon.

laboo · Boobs

ok like I still have not started PT yet and it's been a month since surgery. I have fuckin' started back smoking again........ shit........

this sucks!!!!

Photogrrlz · Buttercup Groupie

How is the arm doing though?

laboo · Boobs

Photo it's my left shoulder, I can kinda lift my arm forward shoulder high, with your arm at your side I can only lift my arm a quarter of the way, no way near shoulder high, with your arm tight against your side, raise your hand like you are going to shake someones hand, I can't rotate any to the left but I can touch my stomach.

Does that help?

Photogrrlz · Buttercup Groupie

yea thx

Plush · Make believe Slutty Zombie/Official TOP Drama Queen

Hi laboo. Hope you feel better soon.

laboo · Boobs

Thanks Plush......all the hell is about to begin, I start pt on Wednesday........

Word to the wise........Never Ever Have Shoulder Sergury!!!!

Photogrrlz · Buttercup Groupie

laboo wrote:

Thanks Plush......all the hell is about to begin, I start pt on Wednesday........
Word to the wise........Never Ever Have Shoulder Sergury!!!!

I think she has you beat with that one...She had her back done remember

Plush · Make believe Slutty Zombie/Official TOP Drama Queen

laboo wrote:

Thanks Plush......all the hell is about to begin, I start pt on Wednesday........
Word to the wise........Never Ever Have Shoulder Sergury!!!!

Yep i had back surgery so i know how it kinda feels. PT sucks too. My first doctor insisted that i do PT before i had my surgery and it fucked me up even more. How do you send someone to therapy if you do not know what the problem is? I guess they thought i was pulling their leg.

laboo · Boobs

yes, I know Plush has had back surgery.

I have been told my shoulder will never be 100 percent and I will allways have problems and might have to go thru this again. Right now my doctor is afraid I will end up with a frozen shoulder which means if so, surgery again to release it.

I had a detatched rotater cuff tendon, a streached capsule, and a tear from the bone. Basically my shoulder was trying to dislocate. My concern is I can still pop my shoulder as I could before. Which makes me wounder if it is truly fixed. We will not know for sure until they break the scare tissue in pt. Or when I regain my strength in that shoulder to know if it's truly fixed.

laboo · Boobs

Well I have started pt, my shoulder is so tight we have not made much progress. I believe next week they will start giving me shots in the shoulder to see if that will help. It is still kinda early to tell if the shoulder is frozen or not I might know next week. It can only get better from here....

Bread Styx · Bad Bread!!

Plush wrote:

laboo wrote: Thanks Plush......all the hell is about to begin, I start pt on Wednesday........ Word to the wise........Never Ever Have Shoulder Sergury!!!! Yep i had back surgery so i know how it kinda feels. PT sucks too. My first doctor insisted that i do PT before i had my surgery and it fucked me up even more. How do you send someone to therapy if you do not know what the problem is? I guess they thought i was pulling their leg.

I have had 4 knee surgeries and was always sent to PT before surgery...to build up muscle in the surrounding effected area......so I had some muscle after surgery and went into surgery a little stronger, thus making rehab not as brutal.

I had a weird shoulder pop out thing along with a broken collar bone.....that PT was a bitch...no surgery, but the surrounding muscles were so weak and hell to build up...my shoulder blade still wings out a tad because of weak muscle. All my doctors told me to NOT get surgery ..that any doctor who wanted to fix the wing was crazy....it was all muscle weakness and would take forever to fix ...if ever. It getting better little by little and when my shoulder acts up, I do the PT home stuff I was taught to work out the kinks.

I had nothing as bad a Laboo ....take care of that and be patient...I know it seems like forever, but honestly, it's worth it in the long run.

Just hang in there...its been 11 years and I still have knee issues from time to time. I was told I would never walk without a brace or cane......I went to Jazzercise last night....shows how much they just guess about the human body.

Take care!

laboo · Boobs

just a little update......

I went to the doctor today and they gave me a shot in the shoulder. I still can not raise my arm over my head or straight out to the side. If I have not progressed any by Aug. 22nd, it's back to the operating room.

Sweet · Hooker

Ugh! I hope that you don't have to get surgery again so soon. Hang in there laboo. Are the shots cortizone shots?

And my opinion of PT is that it doesn't work very well. LOL

I had back surgery last year, and I will need up to 3 more surgeries, but I get to wait a few years (hopefully) until my next surgery. I can't imagine getting surgeries so close together.

Do you have people helping you?

Plush · Make believe Slutty Zombie/Official TOP Drama Queen

Bread Styx wrote:

Plush wrote:
laboo wrote: Thanks Plush......all the hell is about to begin, I start pt on Wednesday........ Word to the wise........Never Ever Have Shoulder Sergury!!!! Yep i had back surgery so i know how it kinda feels. PT sucks too. My first doctor insisted that i do PT before i had my surgery and it fucked me up even more. How do you send someone to therapy if you do not know what the problem is? I guess they thought i was pulling their leg.

I have had 4 knee surgeries and was always sent to PT before surgery...to build up muscle in the surrounding effected area......so I had some muscle after surgery and went into surgery a little stronger, thus making rehab not as brutal.

Well as much as I would love to say "The dr.s around here know what they are doing" I can't. They sent me to PT hoping to correct the problem. Now this may work for some who have pulled a muscle or whatnot. I had a ruptured disc. I had a ruptured disc for 4 months before my surgery. LOL That is some painfull shit. But anyway. It took me 3 months to find a dr. that knew what the hell he was doing.

Sweet · Hooker

Plush wrote:

I guess they thought i was pulling their leg.

They thought that I was pulling their leg for six years. Finally my current doctor thought she would prove that I was lying by sending me to get an MRI.

The next morning I had an appointment with a neurosurgeon. LOL

Bread Styx · Bad Bread!!

Plush wrote:

Bread Styx wrote: Plush wrote: laboo wrote: Thanks Plush......all the hell is about to begin, I start pt on Wednesday........ Word to the wise........Never Ever Have Shoulder Sergury!!!! Yep i had back surgery so i know how it kinda feels. PT sucks too. My first doctor insisted that i do PT before i had my surgery and it fucked me up even more. How do you send someone to therapy if you do not know what the problem is? I guess they thought i was pulling their leg. I have had 4 knee surgeries and was always sent to PT before surgery...to build up muscle in the surrounding effected area......so I had some muscle after surgery and went into surgery a little stronger, thus making rehab not as brutal. Well as much as I would love to say "The dr.s around here know what they are doing" I can't. They sent me to PT hoping to correct the problem. Now this may work for some who have pulled a muscle or whatnot. I had a ruptured disc. I had a ruptured disc for 4 months before my surgery. LOL That is some painfull shit. But anyway. It took me 3 months to find a dr. that knew what the hell he was doing.

Well, crap...you are lucky you can move. Back injuries are totally different from limb injuries......I may have a little bone grindage in my knee, but my spimal cord is no where near those places. Obviously they didnt check for a ruptured disc before sending you to PT...and the PT should have known better no matter what the script for PT said. They didnt start doing any Passive PT on me after my accident until hey knew for sure that I didnt have a broken neck or some back damage that would cause spinal cord impairment. I had one Physical Therapist who did her own therapy(not the script) on my knee even though my Ortho specifically ordered no weight bearing therapy on my leg. Surgery #2 took 5 hours instead of the estimated 2 hours. My doc was furious..he had to clean up so much damage and even said I was lucky it wasnt permanent. He made me change PT ...close to his office and would come in during every appointment to make sure my PT was doing what he ordered done.

Gracious...we are all falling apert!

How are you feeling....crap...

Plush · Make believe Slutty Zombie/Official TOP Drama Queen

LOl i feel good now. I get better everyday. Sweet, i could not imagine what I had for 6 years. That pain put me on the floor. Period. I use to sleep sitting up and leaning to the side with a head on a pillow, because the angle took some of the pressure off of the disc bulging through. The crazy thing about your spine is that my disc bulged in my lower back, like lumbar 4 and 5 I think, and i had such tremendous pain in my left hip and ankle/calf. I still get cramps in my left foot. I am too young for this shit. Now i feel like crap, Bread.

Bread Styx · Bad Bread!!

Plush wrote:

LOl i feel good now. I get better everyday. Sweet, i could not imagine what I had for 6 years. That pain put me on the floor. Period. I use to sleep sitting up and leaning to the side with a head on a pillow, because the angle took some of the pressure off of the disc bulging through. The crazy thing about your spine is that my disc bulged in my lower back, like lumbar 4 and 5 I think, and i had such tremendous pain in my left hip and ankle/calf. I still get cramps in my left foot. I am too young for this shit. Now i feel like crap, Bread.

My father in law had a lot of back problems for years and finally had surgery. all those years of being in pain and walking to adjust pain level......caused some atrophy in his calf muscles......so he deals with that and trying to build that up again. He has had hip surgery in both knees replaced......he is in his 70's though.....take care of yourself so you dont have to do that!

I really lucked out when I had my accident.....no back injury...how the heck I avoided that is beyond me.

Sweet · Hooker

Plush wrote:

LOl i feel good now. I get better everyday. Sweet, i could not imagine what I had for 6 years. That pain put me on the floor. Period. I use to sleep sitting up and leaning to the side with a head on a pillow, because the angle took some of the pressure off of the disc bulging through. The crazy thing about your spine is that my disc bulged in my lower back, like lumbar 4 and 5 I think, and i had such tremendous pain in my left hip and ankle/calf. I still get cramps in my left foot. I am too young for this shit. Now i feel like crap, Bread.

The pain in your hip and ankle/calf was from the disc pressing on your sciatic nerve. I had the same problem, sometimes my entire leg and foot would be numb for days. Sometimes I couldn't walk for days or weeks at a time, then the worst hit about 2 years ago, and I couldn't walk/dress myself NOTHING for 2 months. Thank god for my wonderful friends who all took turns taking care of me. Sleep was a blessing if I could finally pass out. The disc of mine that ruptured was the next one below yours and it ruptured on the right side. But I have 2 more bulging discs up higher, and some of my lower discs need to be replaced. Ugh!!!!

I hate my back! LOL And I hate laboo's shoulder, and Melt's knee!

Buttercup · Monkey Proof is Beautiful yet hideous

It's good to see you here, Laboo, but I'm sorry to hear what you're going through.