Visit to the orthopedist yesterday to have him look at my achy, but not debilitating left shoulder, after I got it X-rayed in December. Prognosis: "If I just looked at this X-ray and didn't test your range of motion, I would be suggesting to you that we need to schedule joint replacement surgery." No cartilage left in the ball of the joint, bone on bone movement, arthritis and spurring. He told me we can do nothing until it's intolerable, shoot it with cortisone, but once that starts, you're getting one step closer to surgery. I said, shoot it to kill the inflammation. He said, once you have cortisone, you can't have the surgery for 3 months. I laughed, said, "it doesn't matter, I just got a shot in my foot last week." What's 14 weeks instead of 13?
Pretty frustrating. I had originally had a slight separation 25 years ago that healed after a shot. Horizontal movements, "band pull-aparts," "pec dec," swinging a golf club sometimes hurt it. I'm sure all the kettlebell lifting and pressing wore it done a bit. I never hurt it doing kettlebells, vertical pressing does not bother it, but alas, wear and tear. It was a good run.
What now? First, I can't do ANYTHING. No yoga because of my shoulder AND my foot. Walking is limited. I did 3.5 miles with my dog and my new insoles and I could feel the Morton's Neuroma later on. So, need to limit that. Need to keep the weight off it. Lifting, sure, leg extensions and leg curls, some ab work. I'm basically going to take the rest of the month off and let the inflammation go away. Throw in the $1200 I just spent this week at the optometrist for new scleral lenses with the comment, "there's toxicity on your corneas." Have my colonoscopy next month, let's see how many polyps they find, and I'm a PHYSICAL WRECK.
Hopefully, in March I can do swings and squats with kettlebells and light machine weights at the gym. I've decided to get the surgery done in the fall after golf season and summer are over. October is usually a slow month in my industry so that would be a good time. 6 week recovery, as good as new. I've started brushing my teeth and shaving with my right hand in preparation. I look terrible with a beard.
Need to lock the diet down and cut the calories.
