Back from the doc's

[effervescible]

The shoulder pain I've been experiencing for a month+ is definitely my rotator cuff. No surprise there. He thinks it's more likely a strain than a tear, which is good. If it were torn, I think the situation would be Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200, Proceed Directly to the Orthopedic Surgeon and Why Don't You Give HIM the $200 and Then Some.

As it stands, he told me to do some stretching exercises. If it's not better next Thursday, I call him and he sets me up with some physical therapy at the hospital, conveniently located 5 minutes down the road so I can basically roll out of bed and down the hill to get there. If THAT doesn't work, off I go to the land of MRIs and poential surgery. You can tell I'm an overworked senior when my first concern isn't the general anesthesia (which I have never done) or the effect on my health, but rather "Ye gods, how will I TYPE if that happens?"

Comments

[jester-x.livejournal.com]

MRI's are fun! Just remember to take off your earrings.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

If I don't, will it be like extreme body modification? Yeah! Stretchy earlobes from the earrings flying to the side of the tube! Or maybe just bloody holes.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

They tell you to take off metal not just because the MRI is highly magnetic, but also because metal disrupts the signal. And yes, I can tell you some stories about terrified workmen who didn't listen to the technician for an MRI-related instrument who had tools fly off their belts. One guy died when his screwdriver pierced the machine, and they don't know whether he died from the NMR quenching (it spews helium and nitrogen when it happens, and you suffocate) or from fright.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Oh damn, that is freaky.

Man. I don't want an MRI.

[sarahtheboring.livejournal.com]

I've had two or three in the course of the studies I did for money back in the day. Unless you're claustrophobic or fidgety, they're not that bad. And that was maybe five years ago, so they're probably more advanced by now.

(that is scary, though. But there is an element of "we warned you...", too...)

[scathachdhu.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Sorry to hear about that. This must be the result of throwing up your hands in disgust at all the badfic you come across.

I've had to have a couple of MRIs. They weren't as bad as I thought they would be. But hopefully the stretching will help enough so that you won't need to go back in.

I hope

[gurubob.livejournal.com]

they don't put too much starch in your rotator cuff..
those laundries are shocking ;)

get well sooon miss J (its heck being sick, I know)

Gor bless.