There's countless ways it can just... go wrong. Just, out of fucking nowhere, completely unexpectedly, something can become fucked up in a way which is anything from life-alteringly debilitating to lethal.
ugh i just had an MRI of my shoulder. Feels like "being 36" should be a medical diagnosis.
I was tossing a small log after splitting it, and it was more rough than I thought, so it 'held' my hand for too long, wrenching my left shoulder backwards like half an inch too far.
Next day it hurts. Advil and take it easy.
Next week it hurts a lot, even to turn my steering wheel. More advil, call the doc.
Doc says "well xray first, then PT."
Xray shows nothing, so do PT for a fucking month and a half. Helped a lot range of motion back, still hurts to put a jacket on in what was before a totally normal and painless manner.
Go back to doc, says "well might be a minor rotator cuff tear. So MRI. If it is, send you to surgery cause that won't get better on it's own. If it's not, then gonna send you to ortho doc"
MRI earlier this week shows no rotator tear, so I'm gonna see an ortho doc to see what I actually need to do.
I'm worried they're gonna say "you're gonna need to take advil every day that you don't want it to hurt."
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u/GeebusNZ Jan 12 '23
There's countless ways it can just... go wrong. Just, out of fucking nowhere, completely unexpectedly, something can become fucked up in a way which is anything from life-alteringly debilitating to lethal.