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Beetlegeuse
I've been back to see the doc and he says my supraspinatus was torn again, this time only partially. Plus the labrum. Plus there was a bunch of scar tissue he removed. I knew my ROM was a little off when I reached vertically but it was a small amount, and as far as I was concerned I was still recovering, so I hadn't made any noise about it.
The partial thickness (re-)tear of the supraspinatus wasn't seen on the MRI so either it was hiding or I'd torn it in the six or so weeks between MRI and surgery. I think the doc mentioned it when he debriefed me after the surgery but I was still so stoned I only remembered bits and pieces but not the bit about the retorn supraspinatus.
He gave me a photo of the anchor that had backed out from the supraspinatus repair. Smith&Nephew's propaganda says they should dissolve in 12-14 months but I was 23 months out and the damn thing still looked new to me. At this point the braided cord it was installed to fasten to the bone long since had grown solid so they altogether removed the anchor. Apparently it was a bitch to get out.
Doc says this revcovery shouldn't be as extensive as the last one was. I hope to hell he's right. I'm going back to the same PT as I had last time. The guy is so bright and the breadth of his knowledge is so extensive that I'm given to wonder how he came to be "just" a therapist, why he didn't go to med school and become an MD. But I know the answer to that because he's still quite a young man but already has enough daughters to start his own soccer team. So the short answer is, I imagine, is that life happened.
Anyway, doc says it's a crap shoot whether the torn labrum was from traumatic injury or a spontaneous tear. Which gives me no comfort. But that's more the nuts-and-bolts kind of topic that's right in my therapist's boiler room. I hope.
Peter pilot seconded to some spooks during the era of Boss Ray-Gun.
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