The good news is...
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cornerofmadnessI don't need surgery. The bad news is, that's only because the only thing they CAN do now is to cut the biceps free entirely. More on that in a bit.
so yes, I DO have two chronic tears but they aren't causing much pain or impingment (Have I mentioned I found back against the frozen shoulder and have nearly full range of motion? Not bad for an out of shape middle aged diabetic). He doesn't think I need to have anything done with them until they either tear worse or become painful and life-impacting (because it's a big surgery to do those two rotator cuffs with a min. of 6 months of intense rehab that I just don't have time for).
I was right. the radiologist thought the biceps tendoesis was a tear because there was NO NOTE. I told the MRI crew twice. See? This is what I mean when I tell my students they HAVE to learn how to spell this stuff. Guaranteed they didn't know how to spell it, didn't want to say that and failed to put a very important note on my chart. So the biceps IS attached. The problem is so is tons of scar tissue. There's chunks of black blobbiness on the tendon's new home. The only way to treat it is to remove it and that means cutting off the tendon. Which means no biceps. I'm oddly attached to that and you know using my lower arm.
So the plan is, wait and see on the two partially torn (it is a chronic tear) rotator cuff muscles. And learn to love my pain. He gave me a TENS unit (well wrote a script for it) and I'm going to try to see what Estim does. When I did this with my brother's unit over Christmas there was nearly no pain. The electricity encourages your body to heal itself. So I'm going to ask my brother if he has suggestions for PT. I might spring for a massage and acupuncture if I can find it here (well i can find the former). My problem is I couldn't afford it long term but maybe if I get just enough relief to break the pain cycle, I'll be good.
As for the issue in the muscle belly, he was unimpressed (i.e. I'm a bone surgeon and don't give a damn about your soft tissue issue) and ditto the retinacular cyst in my finger (I do shoulders make an apt with my partner the hand doc).
After I got out of there, at least happy that I wouldn't be undergoing more surgery (because it was as painful as hell last time), I went to the Happy Greek in the Short North (yum) and then to see the Avengers. I waited to go to see it in COlumbus because the local theatre well blows, has poor sound proofing and only 2 showsing a day so they're crowded. I found one right near OSU and it was NICE. My god, living here I had forgotten how nice they can be. THis one had a full bar, a coffee and smoothie bar and the normal food stand. Given that the coffee was 6.75 and bottled water was 4.50 i didn't even want to know what the beer cost. It doesn't matter since I've been having SO MUCH gastritis that i couldn't drink even if I wanted to (and I wanted to, not only did I need one, i had a half hour wait and oh, as soon as they told me i didn't need surgery, half the gastritis resolved. my god body, every time you stress, you take it out on my GI tract).
I'll blog about the movie later (it's been a 14 hour day with about 250 miles of driving all total. I'm beat). Leave it at MY GOD THE EYE CANDY and loved it. I did finish a book waiting for it. I could have seen the 3-D version with no wait but geez it's nearly twice the cost and those glasses give me headaches and seeing this, I could guess where the 3-d was and I would have puked seeing that in 3-d
I was spending at Trader Joes and Whole Foods like I had stock in Facebook. Between the two I a) spent 5$ and got a wine glass and rights to all the samples at whole foods b) bought 2 wines, including a superfruit organic sangria c) got olives and dolmades d) bought bellavitano black pepper cheese, pagliagrina brie (TJ cheese of the month), st andr brie, roaring 40's blue cheese from Australia and 1000 day old gouda (I love how salty it is) e) tons of other crap at TJ's including medjool dates which i love but man they look like I'm eating palmetto bugs.
Went to Amul India and pigged out (hey sick stomach watch out here comes spices and stuff but afterward I felt much better). Garlic roti, matar paneer, rose water lassi, gulab jamun, YUM and I saw a place I hadn't seen before saying it serves Italian street food. I'll stop next time.
Naturally hit Barnes and nobels for its pathetically dwindling manga supply and picked up a sequel from something i said I'd get at the library (well i was all sugar deluded and high from Avengers fun so...)
Kanda was so unhappy I was gone all day.
And in weird news, my cousins in NC had an indoor/outdoor cat, 12 years old, today they saw deer in the yard playing then realized the deer were trampling the cat on purpse which is bizarre behavior in a deer. Pumpkin had to be put down.
so yes, I DO have two chronic tears but they aren't causing much pain or impingment (Have I mentioned I found back against the frozen shoulder and have nearly full range of motion? Not bad for an out of shape middle aged diabetic). He doesn't think I need to have anything done with them until they either tear worse or become painful and life-impacting (because it's a big surgery to do those two rotator cuffs with a min. of 6 months of intense rehab that I just don't have time for).
I was right. the radiologist thought the biceps tendoesis was a tear because there was NO NOTE. I told the MRI crew twice. See? This is what I mean when I tell my students they HAVE to learn how to spell this stuff. Guaranteed they didn't know how to spell it, didn't want to say that and failed to put a very important note on my chart. So the biceps IS attached. The problem is so is tons of scar tissue. There's chunks of black blobbiness on the tendon's new home. The only way to treat it is to remove it and that means cutting off the tendon. Which means no biceps. I'm oddly attached to that and you know using my lower arm.
So the plan is, wait and see on the two partially torn (it is a chronic tear) rotator cuff muscles. And learn to love my pain. He gave me a TENS unit (well wrote a script for it) and I'm going to try to see what Estim does. When I did this with my brother's unit over Christmas there was nearly no pain. The electricity encourages your body to heal itself. So I'm going to ask my brother if he has suggestions for PT. I might spring for a massage and acupuncture if I can find it here (well i can find the former). My problem is I couldn't afford it long term but maybe if I get just enough relief to break the pain cycle, I'll be good.
As for the issue in the muscle belly, he was unimpressed (i.e. I'm a bone surgeon and don't give a damn about your soft tissue issue) and ditto the retinacular cyst in my finger (I do shoulders make an apt with my partner the hand doc).
After I got out of there, at least happy that I wouldn't be undergoing more surgery (because it was as painful as hell last time), I went to the Happy Greek in the Short North (yum) and then to see the Avengers. I waited to go to see it in COlumbus because the local theatre well blows, has poor sound proofing and only 2 showsing a day so they're crowded. I found one right near OSU and it was NICE. My god, living here I had forgotten how nice they can be. THis one had a full bar, a coffee and smoothie bar and the normal food stand. Given that the coffee was 6.75 and bottled water was 4.50 i didn't even want to know what the beer cost. It doesn't matter since I've been having SO MUCH gastritis that i couldn't drink even if I wanted to (and I wanted to, not only did I need one, i had a half hour wait and oh, as soon as they told me i didn't need surgery, half the gastritis resolved. my god body, every time you stress, you take it out on my GI tract).
I'll blog about the movie later (it's been a 14 hour day with about 250 miles of driving all total. I'm beat). Leave it at MY GOD THE EYE CANDY and loved it. I did finish a book waiting for it. I could have seen the 3-D version with no wait but geez it's nearly twice the cost and those glasses give me headaches and seeing this, I could guess where the 3-d was and I would have puked seeing that in 3-d
I was spending at Trader Joes and Whole Foods like I had stock in Facebook. Between the two I a) spent 5$ and got a wine glass and rights to all the samples at whole foods b) bought 2 wines, including a superfruit organic sangria c) got olives and dolmades d) bought bellavitano black pepper cheese, pagliagrina brie (TJ cheese of the month), st andr brie, roaring 40's blue cheese from Australia and 1000 day old gouda (I love how salty it is) e) tons of other crap at TJ's including medjool dates which i love but man they look like I'm eating palmetto bugs.
Went to Amul India and pigged out (hey sick stomach watch out here comes spices and stuff but afterward I felt much better). Garlic roti, matar paneer, rose water lassi, gulab jamun, YUM and I saw a place I hadn't seen before saying it serves Italian street food. I'll stop next time.
Naturally hit Barnes and nobels for its pathetically dwindling manga supply and picked up a sequel from something i said I'd get at the library (well i was all sugar deluded and high from Avengers fun so...)
Kanda was so unhappy I was gone all day.
And in weird news, my cousins in NC had an indoor/outdoor cat, 12 years old, today they saw deer in the yard playing then realized the deer were trampling the cat on purpse which is bizarre behavior in a deer. Pumpkin had to be put down.
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Date: 2012-05-19 03:52 am (UTC)I am kind of glad they are not trying to load you up on pain killers for the pain. My doctor told me I could get the epidural treatments but that would be just masking the pain. I take one tramadol on the week and that's it. I am really hoping something works for you.
I am hoping for no surgery myself.
I am going to look into massage too, I just wish my insurance paid for it.
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:03 am (UTC)I can't take pain killers. Narcotics make me puke and NSAIDS give me GI Bleeds so it's not even an option. They didn't suggest them though
good luck to you and yeah I know, insurance doesn't
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:07 am (UTC)Well mine does but it's not part of package my company picked from Oxford. I did go to Hand & Stone with my mom and it helped so much better that PT. I am kind of curious about Acupuncture and if that would help though.
Thanks... nervously waiting my MRI results. It's the waiting that sucks LOL.
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:31 am (UTC)thanks though. I think i'll leave the biceps in it's new position since at least it's functional if hurty. Otherwise no left arm doing much of anything for me.
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:35 am (UTC)yes it is the waiting that sucks. My insurance barely pays for PT. My HR dept sucks (I swear she gets kick backs)
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:41 am (UTC)Wow, that's bad. Not that paying $40 (which is only a ten dollar discount) per visit. I wouldn't doubt it.
We are a small law firm so I don't see them paying for the amenities that would get me the massage therapy. Which considering how many people who have bad back that work there it would be an investment XD
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Date: 2012-05-19 05:18 am (UTC)Weird about the deer, though I have heard of antelopes and what not doing this to big cats.
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Date: 2012-05-19 11:34 am (UTC)Yay for yummy foods and EYE CANDY and manga. Even if you were too sugared up to make the best decisions? :D
Soul was...what, since you were gone all day?
And the deer with Pumpkin - poor Pumpkin! I wonder if there was a late fawn around, and the deer overreacted? Did you offer your cousins Soul?
I'm really glad...
Date: 2012-05-19 11:48 am (UTC)Frozen shoulder triumph! YOU GO for powering through it!
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Date: 2012-05-19 12:08 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear you don't have to have surgery. I'm not much of a medical buff, so I won't pretend I know what all that means, but it doesn't sound all that great. :( I'm sorry you have to deal with it. But at least there are helpful methods open to you. I hope they help!
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:50 pm (UTC)It's not all that great (I'm a doc so Iknow justhow great it isn't) Thanks
Re: I'm really glad...
Date: 2012-05-19 04:51 pm (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2012-05-19 04:53 pm (UTC)nice eye candy. well the book doesn't suck if that means anything
soul was good
these cousins keep trying to offer me all the various cats theirkids stick them with
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Date: 2012-05-19 05:07 pm (UTC)I know, I've seen that happen to big cats. apparently it can to little ones too
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Date: 2012-05-19 05:08 pm (UTC)and yeah that sucks for you guys
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Date: 2012-05-19 10:28 pm (UTC)A plan is a plan?
Maybe I'll go see it tomorrow? Perhaps. We'll see. Yay for the book not sucking. I've got three or four started at the moment.
Yay, Soul.
Hmmmmmm. Uh, no.
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Date: 2012-05-20 12:04 am (UTC)it's something
you should see it. It's nearly 3 hours long
same here, at least three.
yeah no more kitties. if i get another one it's going to be one i want, not something that got dropped off here
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Date: 2012-05-20 12:29 am (UTC)Maybe tomorrow. We'll see.
I want the Schnauzer who looks like Frosteigh who's in Illinois.
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Date: 2012-05-20 01:12 am (UTC)I always feel a little better when I force myself (there's an irony for you) to drop the stress. I think my stomach is hurting today because Cairo and Bo kept me up all night...
In any case, it sounds like it was a good day, anyway. We have to get to see Avengers!
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Date: 2012-05-20 01:36 am (UTC)nods nods, I keep thinking Maine Coon
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Date: 2012-05-22 12:26 pm (UTC)Avengers=eye candy. OMG yes.
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Date: 2012-05-22 02:43 pm (UTC)Isn't it? That was such a yummy buffet of people