Shoulder progress

It has been a month and I'm probably 60% down the road to complete recovery.  My expectation is I'll get 90% and it will hold for a long time.  That has been my previous experience.  That last 10% takes a year and shows itself as an occasional twinge and more tiredness than usual.  

But I can tie back my hair reaching behind my head, barely, without too much pain.  I don't mind the pain so much but it is an indication in this case of something attached to the new metal not ready to be bent that way and I don't want to tear anything.  So I've got limitations.  About 90 degrees of elevation of my arm and not too much strength.  But no pain meds and I just have to be careful.  

I've got a bunch of exercises that are pretty light weight so not to cause problems.  We're making progress and I don't have to wear the sling unless I want to.  Sometimes the shoulder gets tired and the sling feels good for a bit.

All in all I'm thrilled with the whole thing.  I've got a meet with the Dr on 8 Dec for an x-ray and looksee.  

And I've got some Scaraway bandaids coming from Amazon.  I'm pretty sure this will disappear entirely in the next year.  It is already healing well.  I have to massage it to keep the scar tissue from building up, something to do while watching TV.

Almost work

I was looking at the numbers and at the same time had an invite to get back on the TurboTax gig.  I put the invite in my calendar but then kept thinking about the actual work and every time I did it came out like:

OK, Rosie, I'll go back in the water

Maybe not right now.