Rt Shoulder update: Surgery tomorrow

Dr. Janda had a cancelation and I'm going in for surgery tomorrow. This is arthroscopic surgery involving three small incisions on my shoulder. He'll be fixing the tear and also removing a bone spur that's aggrivating it and preventing healing. It's an outpatient procedure which is expected to take about 3 hours.

I'll be unconcious for the surgery itself but he said I get to take home a video. :)

I'll be off work until Tuesday and then it's art fair so I'll have to be disciplined about not overstraining it at work, but I'll be able to move it and use it the next day, I'm just restricted from raising the arm above my shoulder for 7-10 days.

There are many theories about what I'll do during my time off. Most likely is that I'll sleep and read and watch movies, but lord knows I've got at least 24 hours of work to do for ConFusion, SFOHA, the washtenaw county democrats, and AWC, so maybe I'll peck away at that a bit.

I do want to read more hugo nominees, so that's a priority. Over vacation I did start on Campbell Nominee Karin Lowachee, and I recommend her first two novels. There are a few places where she takes far too many words to tell you something, but the books are pretty worthwhile.

I'll also be having a concom meeting Saturday and a SFOHA meeting Sunday.

Bill is right: I'm not very good at doing nothing.

On doing nothing after surgery

I am amused to note that the instructions from the hospital warn me not to make any decisions or sign any legally binding documents for 24 hours after surgery.

Everything will go fine.

but in case it doesn't, I just spent half an hour dancing...

[Random Thought from long ago.]


Thanks to everyone for your supportive comments, especially Chuck for the sweet phone message.

Talk to you after.