Hoping for flatness :/

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Also, kicked the reefer after 20 ys. Any tips with coping w\out would be great! Please don't say jeebus.
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Stay off it. After 3 weeks you won't miss it. (that was my 'kick it' time that it took)
It's worth it. You'll like breathing!

 

8 weeks off the reef for me. My first 3 weeks were hard, my therapy was making hateful rants on here, playing golf and guitar. Keep with it, it will get better.

 

My shoulder got farked up when I got T Boned by a 89 year old lady in a Crown Vic. Lucky my wife, daughter and I were all properly strapped in. To rehab, I took up tai chi. It has been great and it has added richness to my life, much like surfing. It took me about 2-3 months to get back into the water and about 6 months to get totally right. It is gentile and gradual and subtle, and helps your mind send vitality throughout your body.

As far as the reefer goes, congrats! I have heard valarium or st. johns wart is helpful.

As far as wishing flatness for everyone else here in S. Fla - you've done enough! We will have waves on Thursday in spite of your negative vibes and I will be thinking of you as I throw mad spray off the lips on chest high chop. Get a camera and be useful to your bros. Don't be a hater, be a congratulater! Hope you get better in time for the swells, dudebra.

 

+2 for child abuse. Or is this a roundabout way of saying you will use your other hand to masturbate?

 

Kava helped me stopped smoking, you can order it online, it taste like dirt, like the earth, its a ground up root, and it numbs your mouth a lil........and I havent surfed since July 15th, and cant surf till Jan 15 2014, longest break I had since I was 17, good luck with the surgery man

Kava is relaxing and you cant really drink too much, like your body wont let you put the cups to your lips if your too deep into the trance. mix it with pineapple juice or coconut milk to make it not taste so gnarly.

godspeed, casu I know that no surfing and no ganja make me go something something....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7GA4EZZrw

 

Get a great PT. Seriously. They are the real deal in terms of giving you options other than getting cut.

Orthopedic docs love to cut (of course, it's good money). Yet, shoulder surgery is one of the least-guaranteed remedies for shoulder damage, and it's highly invasive (scope is over-hyped). Plus, you're looking at a one-year rehab, my friend, I don't care what Dr Kildare claims about you being great in 4 to 6 months.

I have a torn rotator & a torn labrum. It's something like an 80% SLAP tear. I shredded it while pitching in the Pan Am Games. Not only did it end my playing days on the spot, I literally couldn't lift my hand to my other shoulder. I couldn't paddle hard for waves. It was beginning to strain my other shoulder because of the imbalanced weakness. Painful would be an understated, nice term for how it felt every morning. My ortho doc said try PT, if that doesn't work, I can cut & have you ready in a year (he was the team doc for an MLB team).

So, from his referral, I located an awesome private-sector PT who understands athlete's mentality. (Not that factory-med crap that you get from places like Commonwealth Orthopaedics, btw. Find a PT who knows how athletes think.) Did the x2 per week PT sessions and always the exercises every day without fail. I work out every day, too, for 30 mins.

After 6 mos I was surfing without pain. Oh what a feeling of goodness to be pain-free. So, I can't throw anymore; it's pathetic because I used to have a gun, but I avoided surgery & I'm pain-free, strong as ever & can surf, cycle, slap a chica's arse & all the good stuff.

I've seen a lot of guys have the surgery. And a lot of them, post-surgery months later after all the rehab, are the same as when they went in, or worse. Some get better, but not most. You just don't really hear about the fails. Even with all of the advancements in treating injuries, shoulder injuries are bad news. Much simpler fix if you were to blow out, say, an elbow.

Sorry for the run-on post. Just that I'm a huge proponent of PT as a great solution to avoid invasive procedures on your body - - if you are willing to do the exercises. Not chiro (those guys are like crack dealers, they never really fix anything they want you coming back week after week forever for your 'fix') and surgery as the option of last resort.

Buena suerte!

 

did you get a shot of cortisone? That and Advil has kept me rolling along for years.

 

As for the weed, gave it up in '78 so ...

 

+ 3 for child abuse. What better time to buy a shake weight

 

How cool are the dreams when you quit smoking? That's one of the major benefits in my mind. And don't buy it or keep any in the house, it's hard to be good when it's sitting in your sock drawer. If your friend has some a couple months from now it's no big deal take a puff but leave it there. That's also why I don't have any ice cream in the house but I keep my friend's freezers full.

Good luck with the shoulder.


P.S. Some other guy on the "Hello" thread just got destroyed today and you make your first post and everyone loves you. Good work. It's kinda the opposite of Farrah Fawcett... She dies and everyone is sad for about 3 hours then Michael Jackson croaks and everyone forgets about ol' Farrah.

P.P.S. Doctors, surgeons, etc are like mechanics. You go in to get your oil changed and now you need a new front end. Hope you have a good mechanic.

 

Been a month clean off da ganjjj, hasnt been too bad for since i slowed down my intake going from multiple times a day to once a day to once a week and so on but whenever i want feel the urge to "meditate" i usually pack a fat ol lipper (chewing tobacco) probably not the best thing for me but it helps get my mind off it and relaxes me but in a couple months youll be seeing me commenting on how i quit chew haha man i gotta stop. good luck tho hope it all works out and you can catch some waves soon

 

+1 on the car mechanic analogy. Without a doubt, cutters love to raise the proverbial hood "and let's see what's going on in there."

 

Like someone else said , find a good Physical therapist who specializes in sports injuries and practices. Of course a surgeon is going to recommend surgery. Go the the PT and worst case scenario you end up getting surgery after. Best case, you rehab and strengthen and skip surgery all together.

Tons of people have back surgery when unneccary because they see someone who specializes in performing back surgeries before trying other methods. Then end up with worse problems