Today is a Monday and on Wednesday I travel to Leicester for surgery to repair the chronically torn rotator-cuff in my right-shoulder. This should be a repair with an allograft - as mentioned in my first post.
This is not the first rotator-cuff repair I have endured - in fact, it's not my second either. Since 2009, I have endured numerous shoulder operations, some painful but effective, some just painful!
As I write, I am comtemplating another six weeks in a sling, which means:
- Pain
- No driving
- Boredom
- Lack of sleep
- Limitation to daily tasks like cooking (which I enjoy) and showering/bathing
- Little or no exercise, other than walks I must force myself to take
- No work (see boredom above)
At least the weather's getting better here in the UK - it's the start of spring.
I've spent the last ten days running around like a mad chicken getting "things done". There's nothing like six weeks of being laid up to focus the mind on one's to-do list:
- Attend to a rat infestation in my loft/attic (great timing there rats)
- Install a new shower
- Jet wash the patio
- Re-seed the lawn
- Oil the wooden floor and deep-clean the carpets
- Prepare enough frozen meals for a space mission to Mars!
The thought of having none of these things left to do and not knowing when I will have the energy or enthusiasm for any of them again of kind of scary.
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