[Magdalen] frozen shoulder (no Anglican content)

[Ginga Wilder]

Interesting, Sibyl.  Back in the '90s when I was having surgeries and
therapy to heal the broken arm, I had hands laid on my shoulder several
times.  My pain did not change with that but I knew the love of God in a
real way.

Ginga

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Interesting intersection!
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> Marion, a pilgrim
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> On 3/20/2017 8:11 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
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>> Reading late, as I usually am (and frequently _too_ late to make any
>> useful reply to what I'm reading), I had the distinct impression on seeing
>> this thread that it related to the common expression, "the cold shoulder"
>> and that it was something about social skills.
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>> That's a clear indication that I know zero about frozen shoulders, of
>> course, but I had recurring episodes of something resembling bursitis, all
>> my early life.  Never went to a doctor with it, but looked it up and read
>> that the usual treatment for it was immobilization with a sling,
>> pain-killers, and anti-inflammatory drugs, and for worse cases, doctors
>> might prescribe steroids.  So I used Aspirin for both analgesic and
>> anti-inflammatory, never wanted the hassle of a sling with no use of the
>> arm, but did favor the arm (of course, the pain was a good reminder to put
>> no strain on it), and eventually the episode always faded into history.
>> Until the next time.  The last time that I ever had it, I was in my late
>> forties, and we were doing Sacramental Anointing of the Sick every
>> Wednesday evening Eucharist at St. Philip's, with a lot of people going
>> forward and kneeling at the Altar Rail for it.  I went up every week, for
>> my chronic cyclical clinical depression, and it did seem to help it, but it
>> always came back (I called it "Spiritual Dialysis"). Anyway, one week I
>> happened to be in the middle of a bad spell of shoulder, and at the rail I
>> prayed for that.  Nothing happened instantly, but an hour after Anointing
>> the pain was much less, and by the following morning, all gone. (This was
>> much too rapid to be typical for my "spells".)  I haven't had a speck of
>> bursitis since then, more than twenty years.
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>> On 3/16/17 11:57 AM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
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>>> Well, Chad, as they say, laughter is the best medicine.
>>> LOL.
>>> Ginga
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>>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Charles Wohlers <
>>> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>> Much commiserations.
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>>>> Wish I could help, but, while we have lots of frozen shoulders here,
>>>> they're all by the side of the roads.
>>>>
>>>> Chad Wohlers
>>>> Woodbury, VT USA
>>>> chadwohl at satucket.com
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