A Christmas present to my self:.....SURGERY
 

took a fall the Sat b4 Thanksgiving in the parking lot at work, Emergency Room said "Sprained Shoulder", I knew better. Got an appt with my Ortho a week ago today, MRI was last Friday. Follow up today.......TORN ROTATOR CUFF( I blew the tendons in 2 of the 4 muscles that hold the shoulder together). Worker's Comp case so I'm on a 10 day waiting period for them to APPROVE my surgery. Outlook is 3-4 months of being out of work.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE/HAPPY HANUKKAH TOO MY JBOTL

RANDY

Re: A Christmas present to my self:.....SURGERY
 

Wishing you a speedy and full recovery.

Re: A Christmas present to my self:.....SURGERY
 

Get well soon, Randy.

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Here's to a successful surgery and a quick recovery! :ss

Think of all the time you can spend on here now! :D

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On the serious side - was it your cigar smoking arm? If not, all is good, if so.... better learn to smoke with the other hans. I hope you get well soon.

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Too bad your income is not that of those that most commonly suffer this type of problem: pro baseball pitchers! Wishing you nothing but the best and a full recovery- and perhaps a salary approaching that of a pro baseball pitcher!

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Best of luck with the surgery, Randy. Hoping for a full and complete recovery!

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God bless your surgery coach. Do what the doc says and rehab hard. Here's to a speedy recover, and a shoulder stronger than ever!

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Wishing you a speedy and full recovery Randy!

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Wishing you a speedy recovery!

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Randy hope all goes well and a swift recovery

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All I can think is "OUCH"!!!

I hope it's all behind you very soon Bro...

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Hope you are back to speed in no time, Randy....we got some Stoli to drink! :)

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Prayers for your pending surgery and recovery. Hang in there brother.

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good luck on the surgery, I'm actually sitting home recovering from that surgery right now, (torn laberum and rotator cuff) I had the surgery the week before halloween. All I could say is try the physical thearapy first and see if helps or just at least stalls the surgery till the nicer weather cause right now I wish I didn't have the surgery cause I'm in more pain now then before. Oh and the biggest piece of advice I could give you is BUY A RECLINER BEFORE my recovery would probably be going better if I had one I have yet to sleep thru the night since the surgery. If you have any other questions shoot me a pm I'd be more than happy to talk to you about it.

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Sorry to hear the news coach. That sucks. I wouldn't say that you'd really be missing work though. ;)

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Surgery is scheduled for Thirs Jan 8, 2009

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Its on my calender Coach.Good luck to you Sir!

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Have been having similar shoulder issues. So far the cortisone has held, though this snowstorm has made me wonder...

Good luck Coach!

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I feel for you.

I had one back 3 yrs ago that they wanted to operate but believe it or not, it healed. Lots of therapy on it but good to go.
I now have the other one torn.:D
This one seems to be a bit worse.

Good luck.

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I hope you have a speedy recovery!

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Good luck with it. I tore two tendons, a ligament and did cartilage damage to my shoulder at work. Not to freak you out, but that's quite a conservative figure of 3-4 months. My shoulder reconstruction was a year and three months off work.
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Terrible thing to happen,,,I had rotator cuff injury years ago and it wasn't anything like yours but know what you are going to deal with. Good luck to you and hope things work out,,,at least you will have time to smoke some good cigars. There has to be a bright side to stuff like this.

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sorry to hear about your luck, godspeed to a full recovery..

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Prayers and Best wishes for a complete recovery, Coach!:tu