My body still doesn’t understand that my mind (and my ambitions) are the Master. Another acute injury aggravating the underlying chronic fibromyalgia, trying to keep me down. It won’t work. I’m not giving in.
Good news, kind of. Doctor says the rotator cuff tear is a small tear in the biceps muscle, not a complete tear to the tendon as first suspected. There’s a bone spur. This is the fifth flareup of tendinitis in a year in this shoulder. Surgery was on the table, which would have meant 6 months rehab and recovery. The good news part is that for now he is taking a conservative approach, gave me another cortisone injection and ordered 6 more weeks of therapy.
I completed the same program between Thanksgiving and Christmas, then re-injured the shoulder while pruning a shrub on Feb. 4. One freaking little shrub. Here’s hoping therapy gets me strong enough to do what I need to do this time around.
Still no explanation for why I am so prone to tendinitis. If this is what a “small tear” feels like and does to motion, I don’t want to know what a big tear means. This is miserable and frustrating enough.
I still have to figure out how to take care of my 1,200 square foot veg beds and the orchard with mostly one arm. Hoeing, pruning, shoveling, spading, tilling are probably all out of the question for now. But if I do well with the therapy maybe I’ll be back in top form (such as it is for my stupid fibromyalgia body) by late spring when main planting season starts.
Nothing’s gonna stop me now. Dear stupid body, you can kiss my butt. Now, where’s my shovel?
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4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden I am channeling the vitality of my youth. Gardener, heal thyself! |
Previous Journals
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1 greenhouse garden
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Organization? I got it. (Seed storage)
1 greenhouse garden
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It's Spring! It's Winter! It's Spring again!
1 greenhouse garden
Later Journals
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3 The Orchard garden and 4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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4 No RaBBITs Allowed! Backyard garden
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Lost pepper plants & more miscellany
peas: burpeeana Harvesting, Potato Flowering, and Kale: Dwarf Siberian Harvesting
Comments
maggiemom wrote:
Hope your recovery goes well. As difficult as it can be, I think that gardening through the pain and injuries is what keeps some of us going. Hopefully the therapy will get you back to gardening form by the time your last frost date gets here.
Posted on 08 Mar 12 (about 1 year ago)
Mamabluestem wrote:
I really feel for you — I have a ‘stupid fibromyalgia body’ too, and some days my whole body refuses to move without pain. My doctor had a hissy-fit when she found out I was slinging 40 lb bags of soil around to make a raised bed (hey, it was a good pain day!) How did she find out? I threw my back out and had no choice but to see her So you be careful!
I wonder how many others of us garden with fibromyalgia? One reason I love folia (among many) — it’s the only way I can keep track of everything on all those brain-fog days!
Good health — and hire the neighbor kids like I sometimes do!
Posted on 08 Mar 12 (about 1 year ago)
HollyBee wrote:
Here’s hoping that shoulder responds really quickly to therapy and that you’re fighting fit very soon.
Posted on 08 Mar 12 (about 1 year ago)
HazelJ wrote:
I can totally understand your frustration – especially at this time of year. Sounds like you are super motivated to get healed up in time for planting season, which I expect would help with the therapy. Just don’t overdo it and make it worse.
I hope you feel better soon.
Posted on 09 Mar 12 (about 1 year ago)
flowerweaver wrote:
I can commiserate, both with Fibromyalgia and having bodily set backs. After five months of swellings the doctors could not figure anything out and wrote it off to a virus. Do ease into it so that little tears don’t become big tears. There’s nothing wrong with hiring help if you can find it. Get well soon!
Posted on 09 Mar 12 (about 1 year ago)
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