I think I tore my rotator cuff.

[KitchenWitch]

Not seeking medical advise. Just wanted to whine.

[MissMillie]

1. ouch!

better get that looked at so you can feel better.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I will get it looked at this week

In the meantime, I have started the NSAIDS.

[hisownpetard]

17. Ice is for the first 24 hrs after the injury; then apply heat (20 mins on, 20 mins off)

and moist heat is the best.
I'm PM'ing you re this.
Feel better! What a week
you've had.

[KitchenWitch]

18. Thanks!

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Where's it hurt?

Mine usually hurts on the back of the shoulder. x(

[KitchenWitch]

3. It kind of wraps around from inside the joint in back to the front of the shoulder

I am not even sure how I did it.

x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. I did mine by painting ceilings

More often, I get pain in the right trapezius, but I don't think that's related. It's what I call "mouse shoulder."

[KitchenWitch]

6. I think I may have gotten mine when I watered the roof.

[hisownpetard]

15. Do you belong to the Flying Wallendas?

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Nuh-uh

The Aching Oeditpi. :)

[hisownpetard]

25. Since you mentioned your trapezius, I couldn't help picturing you flying

through the air in your purple spangled tights...

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Ohhh..... hunce I was wappy

Uh, once I was sappy... uh, sap I was wussy... no, no, no...
Once I was happy, buts now I borlorn... uh, lorn I fow mow... uh, sigh on lie now... uh, Nylons are free.... no, no... now I'm forlorn
OOOOOOOOO
Like an old goat... oh no, not a goat; that's an animal... like an old coat that is tornered and tat... uh, teetered and tonned... uh, tattered and tipped... uh, tap with a toupee... uh, ripped!
OOOOOOOOO
Left in this wide world to sleep and to snore... uh, to weep and to mourn
Betreaned by a jade in her means... no, bemeaned by a trade for some jeans... no, bejeaned by a teen with some jade... no, betrayed by a maid in her teens.
OOOOOOOOO

He floats by his hair... ooh, not by his hair; that would hurt!
Speaking of hair, a man came up to me and said, "Doodles, your hair is getting thin." And I said, "Well, who wants fat hair?" THAT'S A KILLER!
OOOOOOOOO
He floats through the air with the aidest of grease... with the latest of fleas... uh, with plates full of cheese... no, no... with the birds and the bees... uhh... he can't miss!
OOOOOOOOO
The manning young dare... uh, the daring young mare... he's not a horse, that's silly; he'd break his neck... the fanny young dan... the danny young fan... he's an awful old ham... uh, he's a young fellow 'bout my age...
You know, a funny thing happened — a man came up to me and said, "Doodles, Doodles, did you leave home? I said, "I left home." He said, "Did you put the cat out?" I said, "I didn't know he was on fire!" THAT'S A KILLER!
OOOOOOOOO
The daring young man on the flapping tripeze... uh, treezing triflaps... uh, trying flip flips... uh, flipping triflop... uh, flapping trivalve... HORIZONTAL BARS!
OOOOOOOOO
His grations are axle... no, his actions are horrible... no, he's very good... all the girls he doth please
But my wuv he hath lollen astay... no, the dove's in the hayloft away... no, I'm on the Road to Mandalay... no... hey hey hey!
No, now — did you hear about the owl that married a goat? They had a hootenanny! THAT'S A KILLER!
OOOOOOOOO

HE'S THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEEEEZE!

[hisownpetard]

32. Speechless...is what I am.

[hisownpetard]

26. That's what took down Michelangelo, too, but he called it Sistine-itis.

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. Y'know he had to re-do the original, din'cha?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4oKXagF3IE

:)

[hisownpetard]

48. Yeah, 28 disciples was way too much, even if it was a buffet.

[Roon]

7. When my Grandfather was a kid

He pitched a baseball game without warming up and tore his rotator cuff. It really didn't bother him until he became 70-something-years old. Then it really flared up and he had to have surgery on it. He had to walk around with this pillow strapped to his body so that his arm would stay extended.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Yeooowww!

x(

I am thinking that this is a rather recent injury. I probably just tweaked it wrong when I was up on the latter watering the roof.

[Roon]

12. I hope you feel better soon

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

9. tear the other and have a matched set

j/k

sounds painful

hope not

hopefully it's just a pulled muscle

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear KitchenWitch!

Damn...

If it's not one thing, it's another...

I hope you didn't tear it...:hug:

[Frosty1]

11. Can you reach your back pocket with that hand?

Like if you were wearing jeans?
Don't forget to ice it.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Not quite.

I have commenced ice therapy. Hopefully it will simmer down.

[hisownpetard]

34. Why? Do you want her wallet? (I thought that was the doctor's job...)*

*Yeah, yeah, it's ok. I was married to one for a hundred years.

[catmandu57]

13. Do you hear a snapping sound when you raise your arm?

Can you raise your arm straight up? Can you raise your arm at all? I tore mine last summer trying to brace myself when I fell, it had to heal on it's own though.

[cuke]

14. Ouch!!

You have my sympathies. I got it getting up from my low-lying couch. Actually, the real damage was probably done when I fell while gardening, but for some reason, getting up was the straw that snapped my tendons.

Take care, and don't get too worked up over it. It's a real pain, but the surgery isn't too rough. And you get prescription drugs!!

[bigwillq]

19. Awww...poor baby.

Hope you feel better. :hug:

[bluedigger]

20. Rub some dirt on it!

(hope you feel better soon!)

[spinbaby]

21. It might not be torn

I thought I tore mine once, but it turned out that something--might have been the rotator cuff--slipped under my collarbone somehow. Really painful, but it straightened itself out with a couple of days of rest.

[Haole Girl]

22. Hope you feel better soon

I didn't see this thread, before starting my own thread to whine! lol! Didn't mean to sound like a copycat! Besides, you have much more pain than I do... I'm sure. :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

27. I wish I knew what I did to hurt myself this time.

Usually I do know what I did.

I think somewhere between the ladder climbing, roof watering, and box loading, I did a number on myself.

Am pretty sure I will not be on the verge of evacuation for awhile...so there is that.

[Generic Brad]

23. I will wave my arms like a windmill in your honor

Hope you mend quickly.

[Robeson]

29. Tough surgery....

...I wouldn't want to lie to you.... :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

31. I have had my hip replaced twice

I am sure the shoulder is less difficult.

:hug:

Can we fire the entire Vikings team except for Ryan Longwell and Adrian Peterson?

[Robeson]

35. I don't even know where to begin.....

...here's a post from someone in a Vikings Forum I post to. I think it says it all:

The problem is that we don't have the QB or WR and no chance of doing so this year. Why don't we have those things? The team had every opportunity in the off season to address these things but failed to do so. (I'm not sure about WR because I do believe that they did go hard after Curtis)

We are where we are because of failed intentions by our organization and coaching staff. Not because of what we see on the field but because of what we don't see. That QB and Wr you're saying we are missing.

The onus is on the organization and Childress not the players. The bad play and game plans are on the coaching. They have little sense within their ranks to correct the problems we have witness now for these 7 games. Save for the Chicago game and even then it was a nail biter up to the end.

We are disillusioned fans. We are because of what we have to witness because of failures of the organization and coaching.

We do not have to knuckle under to the cries of others who are willing to accept ineptitude. We as fans are not against the players or the team. we watch because we are fans even though they continue to lose our trust in the coaching and organization for not at least giving more of an attempt to at least make sure there was a competent veteran QB to ease the tensions we feel about what we are witnessing.

Coaching is such a large part of the game. For years we saw Belichic win with lesser talent and now we see what he can do with good to great talent. Childress may not have the appropriate talent but then he does not know what to do with the talent he does have.

He is set in his ways and believes that his system is the right one. Problem is he doesn't have all the talent necessary to run it and the talent he does have he is misusing because they are not really WCO guys.

I have no plans nor desires to stop watching the team I love. I have no desires to give up on them. What I do have a feeling of though is that this team lacks coaching more than it does a QB or WR. They certainly need those two things too but without good coaching it won't matter and we will be in here for the rest of the year making the same statements about how the coaching is hurting this team. The players are trying and playing hard. It may not always show but that is because their talents are being used in ways most of them are not able to perform. So of you're going to stand on your line about showing improvement than expect much more of the same from those of us who spot shoddy coaching because it will be forth coming unfortunately. That is unless Childress sees that what he is trying to do is not working and realizes that change is in order, but with his ego don't look for it too soon.

[KitchenWitch]

39. This has been a hard year for us Vikes fans.

The good thing in this for me, is that the pizza joint right around the corner from our house is the home of the SoCal Vikings fan club. So we do not have to pay the exorbitant fees to DirectTV to be able to see the Vikings, we just walk around the corner, pull up a chair and buy lunch and watch. And it is good to be able to commiserate with 80 other fans, and not be throwing bricks at your own TV...

[Robeson]

44. LOL! We're going to some Halloween parties this Wednesday....

...and Mrs Robeson is gong to dress as the "ultimate Vikings fan" with all the regalia. Anyway, as we were going through our box of Vikings stuff, I found my old Vikings Brick! Now, I can once again have something to throw at my TV on Sundays!!! :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

46. Ah yes, the "Bad Call Brick"

I think ours got lost in the move.

[hisownpetard]

36. Did you have the same hip done twice? By the same doctor, two times?

[hisownpetard]

33. Wait, wait, wait - surgery? There are a dozen other less drastic scenarios that

are more likely than KW having to have surgery. One step at a time.
It could be nothing more than a muscle strain, which would be a happy
resolution.

[Robeson]

37. Don't worry. KW gets my vibe......

...I think....;-)

[KitchenWitch]

38. I do!

:hi:

[Wapsie B]

40. I told you to watch your pitch count!

:cry:

[KitchenWitch]

43. But I am not a southpaw...

it is my left shoulder...which is why I am like :wtf:

[Wapsie B]

45. Well ice it up!

Tylenol or Ibuprofen for you.

[KitchenWitch]

47. Done and done

I have this large ice pack that I can strap to me with velcro straps...it is awesome.

[Wapsie B]

49. Good!

Just take it easy. :)

[mopinko]

41. i feel your pain

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=317x2284

finally getting better. but it sure hurts to click.

if it was really torn, you would probably be in the er right now. i live with pain most days, but this has had me on the floor.

[KitchenWitch]

42. Perhaps it is just a strain then

but the pain has been steadily building since Monday.

[mopinko]

50. don't overlook repetitive strain injuries.

i am having some carpal tunnel symptoms, and man, it hurts. it has been so hard to type. so f'ing hard.
but, ice. i concur with ice. keep it moving, tho.

[u4ic]

51. Wine? Who said wine?

Come to think of it, that may help you...


:hug:

[AZBlue]

52. Do seek medical advice offline though, LOL.

My co-worker had that happen - she tried therapy but it didn't work for her (then again, she didn't do her exercises) so she had to have surgery. I don't think it goes away on its own.

Take care of yourself!! I hope they can help you with exercise and therapy.