The Adventures of the Shoulder

Around September of last year, I started getting random shoulder and arm pains.  It would cause me pain sleeping on my right side, my best sleeping side.  I would randomly get sharp stabbing pains with the oddest of movements; trying to open the car door as a passenger; trying to quickly catch a falling cell phone; trying to shift gears in the Jeep.  Sharp, debilitating pain that would cause me to double over, grabbing the arm.

In December I set an appointment to see my doctor.  They took X-rays and found nothing. No pinched nerves, no broken something.  Possibly arthritis? But wouldn't that be dull pain? Would that cause these sharp pains?  They prescribed me anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxants and sent me on my way.

Six months later, June, and I was still having problems.  I could not sleep on my right side and I would wake up in pain, having moved to my right in my sleep. I could no longer raise my right arm over my head; it stopped at a 45 degree angle, not 90.   I called the doctor's office again and said I could not live like this.  They prescribed physical therapy.  The same place I went to after my knee surgery.

My PT, a young 20-something male, checked my measurements, my range and said that due to whatever it was I had, he believed I had a frozen shoulder.  He proceeded to stretch the heck out of it. Painfully at times, but by the end of the session, I already improved my range.

He's given me stretching exercises that I faithfully do at work and home on the days I don't have PT.  I can say that the pain in my shoulder has gone away drastically.  Maybe they stretched me enough so the pinching isn't pinching? I don't really know, but in the 2 weeks of PT, I have had exactly one day of throbbing pain and one day of the random, really debilitating pain.  I am really happy about the improvement!

Off to stretch!

April Nails

Easter Nails

Disney's Brave

Random with PB&J polish

More Easter nails

Incoco nail wraps

These were cool, and easy to do

Red's a hard color to work with.

"Tail Me Something" from China Glaze's Sea Goddess collection.  

Lazy

Sorry.  I just have not felt like posting. I am in a posting funk, I suppose.   The beginning of the year kind of threw me sideways with a throat-punch, and I am afraid I am still recovering.  Nothing exciting to post about, I suppose.

What's new, what's new.....

Really, I can't think. My reading has been DOWN. I've not had the heart to read.   I think I've read 4 books so far.

We did not renew our annual passes to Universal in an effort to save money, so that stinks.

Isabel made this awesome Puma diorama.

She was chosen again this year as one of two Young Authors in her class and we got to see her get her award.

And she won a library drawing.

Jacob finished his sophomore year and is working over the summer to make more money for the fall semester.  No pictures, because he hides from me, the vampire.  

That is all for now.