...Orthopod! Actually treated PB like a hurting human being instead of an annoyance. What a novel idea! And it turns out that the "SLAP tear" diagnosis is probably wrong, and her Physical Therapy may have been doing more harm than good for the past several weeks. OY! He thinks she has an "encapsulated shoulder", which is the precursor to "frozen shoulder". It can be precipitated by a traumatic injury (like her fall) and needs an entirely different treatment regimen than what she's been on. He gave her another cortisone injection...this time directly into the shoulder joint and changed her work release to "left hand work ONLY". This should be interesting...PB is SO right handed... Work said they would make every effort to find something for her to do...we'll see what they come up with before Monday.
Jen is fighting yet another bout of Shingles...she's miserable! The (supposed) immunization she got not only gave her cellulitis in the injected arm, it didn't WORK! And my poor baby girl has entered into that weird and wonderful phase of her life called Peri-Menopause...on top of all her other issues. All I can do is sympathize...mine started in my early 40s, and lasted till I was about 51. There's no quick or easy way to get through it...you just have to keep going till it's over...
As for me...Meh...I'm just plodding along day to day and trying not to get into trouble... Haven't been very 'creative', not much enthusiasm for crafting or much of anything for that matter. Maybe the dark Winter weather is to blame, or maybe I'm just lazy...or both... I find all these cool things on Pinterest and go "Oh, wow...", and then pin it and move on, LOL.
PB goes back to this new Doc in 4 weeks (unless it gets worse, he said to call if it did!) and we'll see what happens then. She has at least been able to sleep a little better since the injection, instead of getting up and wandering around off and on all night! And being in constant pain makes you so depressed and crabby...not to mention frustrated. So we hope for the best, and just keep on keepin' on.
Have a good weekend, wherever you are...
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