[Magdalen] frozen shoulder (no Anglican content)

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 16:00:18 UTC 2017


Deepest sympathy and prayers for a good and speedy resolution beaming 
your way.  Mercifully I have never had to endure ongoing pain of that 
sort and can only try to imagine how it is.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 3/16/2017 11:25 AM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
> Thanks, Y'all.  I have a long, long history with the left shoulder:  ( I
> fell 8 ft off a ladder in '92, shatterred my humerus just  below the head,
> had 5 surgeries and 7 years of therapy with the same hand therapist I am
> seeing now.  She is so smart and curious about her patients' problems, so I
> trust her almost totally.  The orthopaedist I am seeing is considered the
> very best shoulder surgeon in Charleston.  He does a procedure in which he
> manipulates the arm in all ranges, then he goes in arthroscopically to
> clean up the mess.  He thinks this does better than simple manipulation; my
> therapist thinks that is a crap shoot.  I feel so much better today after
> the injections/blocks yesterday...it's hard not to think this is done, but
> I know the shoulder is in a mean cycle.  With the previous break I let the
> therapist and the same rheumatologist serve as 'parents' of my shoulder.  I
> made the decisions with the advice of people who do not do surgery...made
> sense to me.  I have entered into that same process as of yesterday.  I
> have taken charge of my shoulder.
>
> I hardly drink any more at all.  I am probably a blue because of the pain,
> but I am ok.  And, I do have a relatively high pain tolerance.  It's the
> right shoulder this time.  I understand that frozen shoulder is not
> uncommon following a mastectomy which I had bilaterally 3 years ago.
>
> A young woman at church has had manipulations done on both shoulders with
> good results.  She cannot understand why I won't just go ahead and do it.
> She's 40; I am almost 70.
>
>
> Thanks again.  All shall be well.
> Ginga
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
>
>> Owww!  No suggestions but lotsa prayers and gentle hugs.
>>
>> Love,
>> Molly
>>
>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
>> other way. -- Mark Twain
>>
>>> On Mar 16, 2017, at 9:59 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Manipulation:  Mom had it done many years ago, and it was a complete
>> failure.
>>> It's still an available treatment, so presumably it works for some.  You
>> just don't know until it's over.
>>
>>



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