Week 3

The last 3 weeks seem to have flown in, even though I have been confined to the apartment and able to do very little! Maybe it's because Santa’s coming? Truthfully, I am now actually beginning to enjoy the rest and the rehab. I am feeling physically and mentally in tune, all the little niggles that I normally feel have gone, feeling fit and healthy and the knees feel like they did when I was 20 something! However, i am at my heaviest i have been in 5 years - back up to my Hooker weight! Lol.

I returned to hospital on Thursday for my follow up appointment. Its always a little worrying as the mind starts to run through various worrying scenarios and outcomes!? Lesson learnt, no point in worrying about or pre-empting the outcome before you even hear the outcome!

The hospital was bang on time with my appointment, which is always a good start, very efficient. The Surgeon ran through the op procedure again and the course of action he had taken, went into it in a lot more detail thankfully! Upshot was that I had pretty much wrecked the tendons as I did not back off when I first felt the pain! Won't be doing that again, i will learn from the past and  back off every time I feel any sign of 'man pain' in the future! Good news is that it looks like everything was successful and should hope to experience a full recovery! He also said that because of the way he had to reattached the bicep tendon, the actual bicep muscle will look bigger when flexed! Bonus or what!!! Not just fixed but bigger than before! Lol... So I asked him if he could do the same on the right side too!

After I was finished with the surgeon I was sent along to begin physio treatment. I was introduced to Niall, who knows his stuff and assessed the movement of the shoulder, elbow & wrist. Impressive range through shoulder that sets me ahead of the game at this early stage of rehab! It just shows that keeping physically fit and following the advice of the professionals is a great combination to enhance the rehab procedure. He gave me a few passive movement exercises to do over the next couple of weeks and I have to keep the sling on when out in public for the next week to protect the shoulder.  Sleeping well at the moment and that's also helping the rehab lots! Came off the pain killers and anti inflammatories at the beginning of the week and seem to be managing ok at the moment. However, the advice now is to still keep the pain to a minimum so the body can heal by taking painkillers when required. So far it's not been needed, fingers crossed!

I will begin exercise rehab next week. I will take pictures before during and after to show the progress that I will post when fully recovered. I will also log my full exercise program back to full fitness together with nutrition involved and keep you all posted along the way!