Torn Rotator cuff
My question is how long after the surgery can I hope to get back to camping. It's just now the start of the season and I have my reservations through August.
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Hubby (construction) was told to expect up to a year to fully heal. Slept almost 5 weeks in arm chair after surgery of left rotator in 2005, was hanging on by a thread he was told. Pain for him was unbelievable but he was careful to not overdo the pain killers. After 10 weeks caught him trying to lift our septic cover - loaded youngest still at home and he in RV and hit the road for 8 weeks, stopping everywhere to have him swim and kept adding laps every other day. What he called me some days is nobody's biz, believe me, but it worked as therapy together with other exercises four times a day had him do. There was no way I wanted them doing a repair on a repair after what we'd just gone through with him!!!
On his 6 month check up surgeon was thrilled with his ability of movement etc and said it was the swimming that did it.
September 2013 he needed to have his right arm done - surgeon went in and said he had 3 elastics broken beyond any repair!!! So he is stuck with the most pathetic casting for fish you've ever seen, but he's still catching so happy (LOL). Sad to watch him use his left hand to lift his right one above a certain level especially when he is naturally right handed to boot. We knew they'd not repaired it when he went straight to bed at home that night after bringing him home from the day surgery, but weren't confirm told until his clinic appointment a week plus afterwards. If anyone has a recommendation for a surgeon that's done a successful repair on someone with 3 strings/elastics (don't know the medical name for them all) please pm me the contact info as I'd love to get him more mobility back in his right arm. Initially he was told at 56 he was too old for the second surgery by his GP!
Everyone heals and reacts differently depending on the tear situation and pain threshold, as we've evidenced with some friends taking longer and some only a few days after surgery back at office work.
On his 6 month check up surgeon was thrilled with his ability of movement etc and said it was the swimming that did it.
September 2013 he needed to have his right arm done - surgeon went in and said he had 3 elastics broken beyond any repair!!! So he is stuck with the most pathetic casting for fish you've ever seen, but he's still catching so happy (LOL). Sad to watch him use his left hand to lift his right one above a certain level especially when he is naturally right handed to boot. We knew they'd not repaired it when he went straight to bed at home that night after bringing him home from the day surgery, but weren't confirm told until his clinic appointment a week plus afterwards. If anyone has a recommendation for a surgeon that's done a successful repair on someone with 3 strings/elastics (don't know the medical name for them all) please pm me the contact info as I'd love to get him more mobility back in his right arm. Initially he was told at 56 he was too old for the second surgery by his GP!
Everyone heals and reacts differently depending on the tear situation and pain threshold, as we've evidenced with some friends taking longer and some only a few days after surgery back at office work.
