New Article and Shoulder Rehab

July 8, 2004

Hi all,

I hope I'm not being too cheeky here from the amazing response I got

after Bonnie posted the link to my cat article, I thought some of

you might be interested to read my latest published piece all about

my encounters with chestnut horses during my riding career. I hope

you don't mind and that you enjoy it too.

your support for my writing work by the way, it helps enormously as

I struggle to achieve my new goals in my new career.

Well I had another visit to my local hospital again today (I'm

really thinking of just renting a treatment cubicle, it would be so

much easier!) This time it was just a PT appointment and thankfully

the news on my post op shoulder is still pretty good. My mobility

and rotation is as far as it ever likely to go considering the major

changes Mac has made to my shoulder structure and my strength is

progressing well too. I do still have an imbalance in the firing

mechanism of the muscles in both shoulders however and a slipping

tendon in my left particularly. We fear that a lot of this may be

due to my severely rotated and winged scapula, which are affecting

my whole shoulder function.

We are working hard at tightening the muscles holding my shoulder

blades, but so far there hasn't been much improvement. My PT said

they actually look even worse this time, " sticking out a mile even

through my T-shirt " . I'm going to keep working as hard as I can on

this, but the PT has warned that Mac may be concerned about the

situation and consider giving me a little " help " with the getting

them back into position. Fingers crossed it doesn't come to that

though as it's bad enough he'll probably be getting to " play " (as he

calls operating on me!) with my stuffed up wrist without giving him

a pair of shoulder blades to go at as well!!

Oh thanks for all the info about the barium swallow by the way - I'm

still not relishing the idea! I don't have a date for that or my MRI

yet, but hopefully it will be soon. I'll keep you posted on how my

tests and appointments go though I promise. Thanks again for all

your time and support. Take care and please know I'm thinking of you

all.

Love and hugs....Jo

xxx

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