From: Dr. Lippschitz on

"Peter J Ross" <pjr(a)example.invalid> wrote in message
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> In alt.usenet.kooks on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:27:21 -0700, Aratzio
> <a6ahlyv02(a)sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:24:22 -0400, in the land of alt.usenet.kooks,
>> Sharon B <sharon(a)lart.com> got double secret probation for writing:
>>
>>>On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:45:29 -0700, Aratzio <a6ahlyv02(a)sneakemail.com>
>>>wrote in <n2jld3d487s9bf4n4457k3o4adcmulapks(a)4ax.com>:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:13:59 GMT, in the land of alt.usenet.kooks,
>>>>"MCP" <gf010w5035(a)blueyonder.co.uk> got double secret probation for
>>>>writing:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"Sharon B" <sharon(a)lart.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:fbeftn$28q$3(a)blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>>>>>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:54:17 -0700, Aratzio
>>>>>> <a6ahlyv02(a)sneakemail.com>
>>>>>> wrote in <karjd3tpkq5080h4s2ri1dhmd6g92dl7c0(a)4ax.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:39:16 -0700, in the land of soc.men, Masculist
>>>>>>><MASCULIST(a)gmail.com> got double secret probation for writing:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Sep 1, 9:00 am, Aratzio <a6ahly...(a)sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:58:04 GMT, in the land of soc.men, "MCP"
>>>>>>>>> <gf010w5...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> got double secret probation for
>>>>>>>>> writing:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <


From: Dr. Lippschitz on
buzz off frootcake.


From: Avenger on

>>>>>If true, I'm sorry.
>>>>
>>>> Ack, no...related to the other stupid post that I laughed out loud
>>>> about.
>>>
>>>Got it. :-)
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>>I tore my rotator cuff working on the firepit for my husband. Gotta put
>>>>>that project on hold for a while.
>>>>>
>>>>>Sigh......


This your hubby?

http://www.bachelorette.com/bp8456.html


From: Ratso on
>>>>>>>>Indeed Eratzio, MCP is one of our "best and brightest".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Truth.
>>>>>>> [falls on floor laughing, re-cracks mending ribs]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If true, I'm sorry.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ack, no...related to the other stupid post that I laughed out loud
>>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>>Got it. :-)
>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>I tore my rotator cuff working on the firepit for my husband. Gotta
>>>>>>put
>>>>>>that project on hold for a while.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sigh......
>>>>>
>>>>> Ow.
>>>>
>>>>Yep. It hurts like a devil and what's worse, I can't even knit right
>>>>now
>>>>something I enjoy doing on long summer evenings. However, there's a
>>>>bright side; my husband has been cooking dinner.

And here he is in all his balless glory
http://www.bachelorette.com/bp3952.html



>>>>
>>>>:-)
>>>
>>> Didja see a real doctor?
>>
>>Yep. I had to. The pain was excruciating.
>>
>>The reason I ask is that I'm a 'doctor myself'

Yeah you go grrllllllllllllllllllllll frmales can do it all hahahaha



>>> type and I didn't--and you strike me as of the same mentality,
>>
>>When I tore it last year, I didn't see anyone. My bad. This time I did.
>>
>>but I did
>>> research it (and have some medical training besides)

She changed the bedpans at a lunatic asylum lol

and concluded I
>>> either tore mine completely--in which case I'd end up in surgery-- or
>>> just partially and if it didna heal after a few weeks of rest I'd know
>>> fer sure,
>>
>>It took 6 months for it to heal when I first did it last year. Dumb me,
>>I didn't see anyone. I tend not to unless there is blood. :-)

Retard


>>so went
>>online and bought a shoulder immobilizer

Where'd you get the brain immobiliser?

(like a sling
>>> but it straps with velcro around your waist). Annoying and confining as
>>> all get out, but works GREAT on enforcing rest of those tendons. Then
>>> when it had healed enough I started exercising the shoulder muscles,
>>> first with Therabands then graduating up to dumbbells so it wouldn't
>>> happen again.
>>
>>I did do that THIS time. I still might need surgery but I'm trying to
>>stave that off.
>
> Well, just remember, tendons need REST; they're not like muscles that
> you can work it out of. If you feel your tendons talking to you while
> you're doing the theraband then STOP.
> (assuming you've not yet progressed up to free weights).
>
> No overdoing, young lady.
>
>>Of course, if I'd just stop doing heavy lifting in the
>>garden, I wouldn't have this problem.
>
> <grin>
> I hate to burst your bubble, but that prolly wasn't the cause--using a
> weakened joint was. Most times, it's lax shoulder muscles allowing
> the humerus to wobble in its socket and pinch the tendons till they
> get REALLY annoyed and/or tear.
>
> Like sawing a strip of leather back and forth across a big rock.
>
> When you progress up to free weights (hmmm...I think they have band
> exercises, too) have a look at:
> http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html
>
>>Moving 3 yards of bark mulch didn't
>>help. Nor did moving the gravel from the front driveway to the back
>>yard. Setting the pavers will just have to wait. We'll see how it's
>>going in a couple of weeks.
>
> Be patient, I doona think 2 weeks is near enough time to heal.
> Cartilage takes a long time cuz of poor blood flow.
>
>>I do NOT want surgery.
>
> I hear ya; most of the ones I know who've gone that route (complete
> tears, total loss of arm function like reaching behind or overhead)
> were permanently limited. Plus, the guys in rehab cried almost as
> loud recouping from shoulder surgery as they did from knee rehabs.

Ever hear of morphine?