My Brand New Acromioclavicular Joint

T plus 28 hours and things are on the upswing.  Upswing includes the current narcotics running through the veins, Oxycodone, Tylenol, Advil and hopefully some single barrel Knob Creek later tonight. Yes, your summary is correct, I am currently higher than Rick James. My pain block wore off early this morning and I seem to be able to manage the pain without it. Currently coming to you from my new office.  Which is he place I will be making myself comfortable over the next couple months.  Yes, that is right, after 14 years of marriage I finally scored a recliner to call my own.  Ignoring the fact it is ugly, matches nothing in this room, has a plastic handle and is made of genuine top grain pleather, I LOVE IT.  Sarah, on the other hand is counting down the days until it moves to the playroom a.k.a the where old furniture goes to die.

Ah yes, how is the shoulder???? Last diagnosis was Grade 5 AC seperation.  Dr. Mileti says surgery went well and shoulder would never have been usable without the surgery.  It was sepearted badly enough that it overlapped and the bone was lodged into the muscle.  So clip the end of the collarbone, drill two holes, donor tendon wrapped and hoisted it all back into allignment.  As a bonus my torn tendons were salvagable so they have all been sewn back together.  Bonus double strenth shoulder once i am healed. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromioclavicular_joint

Surgery Morning weigh in 213 August 17, 2012.  Goal is 199 before the sling (hopefully) comes off on October 5th.  That's 7 weeks, he said 6-8 so hopeful its closer to 6 if i do as told (tall order).

P.S. I think she secretly lusts for my chair!

La bosse

La bosse

The Bump

If I knew any French I would run with it since it's Tour de France time.  Let's stop at The bump and move on.

My how time flies!  Now that the giant hole in my shoulder is healed over I finally had the stomach to take a picture of the residual (physical) damage and introduce it to the world...or just the one person that reads this.

Let's back up 4 weeks to the Friday I went against all my better judgement and met a few guys for a 6:00 AM training ride.  By 9:00 AM I was drinking "free" ER coffee at Dublin Methodist. Hell I don't normally make it to my basement office before 9:00AM most Fridays.

Grade 3/4?

So when she says well lets talk about your ribs first, you could see the other shoe dropping in from 30,000 feet.  "ribs are not broken, yada, yada, yada".  I doze off into space and the next thing I hear is "AC Separation, Grade 3/4".  Shit half the people I know who ride bikes have a little bump so cannot be that bad right?   As she is doing the discharge paperwork Sarah calls and make Ortho appt.

Fast Forward

So its been four weeks.  What was a grade 3/4 when the Radiologist read it, became a 3 when the Ortho Surgeon looked at the file 3 days later.  85% chance with rest and rehab you get most function back.  Rest and Wait is the bottom line.  2 weeks later, new x-rays, I am feeling like 110% better when he walks in and drops the "F" word.  It "FELL" since the original X-ray.  He is way not very positive about recovery without surgery. No matter nothing we can do until the skin fully heals come back and two weeks.  Which leads to today:

P.A. - Well Dr. M and a colleague looked at your film from last time and it is now a grade 5
Me - silence
P.A - words, words, surgery, words, words, surgery, Dr. M will be in in a minute
Me - silence
P.A. - 8 weeks immobile, 6 month recovery time.
Me - in my head, yes Dr. M has said that each time and that is the reason they hate to do the surgery

I know, Jason land this plane...Same message from Dr. M.  I cannot fix it until skin heals, and you can wait as long as you want.  I have 1 million thoughts going through my head.  Then, as I walk out of the exam room to make my follow up appointment in four weeks, he says "all things being equal, I would have the surgery".

Valentines Day is 7 months from today.  I hear Knob Creek Calling.

Is there anybody out there?

(makes you want to run off and listen to The Wall, right?)

So a few years ago I started a blog as therapy to get me through the early days of starting my own business (during a recession I might add). Of course only I read it. That writing soon progressed into making fun of myself and my incredible lack of Cycling skills and fitness. Then somewhere along the way I lost track of my wittiness and sense of humor (translation: Sarcastic Smart A@$ness). I think I was afraid someone may read this and get the wrong impression about me.  Or more important not like me or want to do business with me. How they would ever find it and or read it is a story for another day, kinda like winning the lottery.

Everyday from everywhere we are "reminded" that if you don't participate in social media, you will fail in life. Here is how that sounds in my brain:  If I don't tell you I had two eggs, three egg whites and coffee while helping a 10 year old do story problems this morning at 10:00 AM, then I am not going to be able to pay my mortgage next month??? I find joy in self deprecating humor and making fun of people who take themselves to serious.  I find zero joy in re Tweeting articles I surfed up on the Internet when I could have been doing something more constructive with my time. You know, reading about people's mundane lives on Facebook and Blogspot, trying to guess what the other 15 schmucks sharing the Starbucks Wi-Fi do for a living or rearranging the long list of prospecting calls staring back at me, the good stuff.


So do we have to blog, tweet, link and face to survive in today's world?? I don't think anybody is really sure but I guess some interaction and self promotion can't hurt. My one takeaway from my 40 something years is that the truth is always somewhere in the middle. With that profound earth shattering knowledge laid on you I guess you know what's coming. I am going to make an effort to participate more, but in doing so I have to be myself. I have come to realize that if I offend someone with my sarcasm and less than serious approach towards life, then so be it.  That person and I were probably not destined to have a solid relationship.

I hate to overdo it so enough for now.  I have to put on The Wall, ride my bike, watch an episode of Madmen, take a shower, coach 4th grade girls basketball and then go see the Bucks whip up on Sparty tonight.  Not to mention I am sure I missed some similar ever so important milestones in your life while typing...hope to see you on your timeline soon.