Redgully
Well-known member
Your situation sounds similar to my father. He has had both shoulders done but they are both stuffed. Can lift with arms down but can't lift arms above shoulder at all. The doctor reckons his right shoulder is the worst he's ever seen, ended up just cutting out half the tendons and tried grafting the other ones in bone and joining but think they failed. I've never seen my dad in so much pain for weeks after the surgery. Even now years later he struggles to sleep. His left should wasn't too bad after a couple of years so dad decided to fall off truck and do the job properly. He won't go back for more surgery because of the pain. Guy next door had 17 surgeries on his shoulders and has recently had them replaced. He told me they are still useless but don't hurt much now.Yeah. My RCs were just GONE; nothing left to try to sew back together.
Last one... I was unloading sacks of mineral out of the back of the Suburban. Something went POW!... I screamed like a little schoolgirl... and could no longer lift my arm at all.
I now have pieces of cadaver dermal tissue in both shoulders, which my own fibroblasts have infiltrated, taking the place of some of the original RC.
I could definitely drag and gut... but would have to take a break or two during the skinning/gutting process. Just can't lift and hold a heavy rifle any more.
I'm now 5 days post surgery and feel great, the range of movement in my knee is nearly back to normal after a couple of years being not able to bend it fully. I think It's going to be great. I guess the trick now is to not over do it. Lucky my shoulders are still 100%, my dad had already had years of problems and surgery by my age.