Under the Knife

Well, surgery it is. Banged up my shoulder pretty good in a hockey game last October. It's actually quite amazing how fast your body will whip from a standing position to prone when skating over a stick. As soon as my blad hit the wood of the stick, it was like a bad waterskiing face plant straight to the ice. I assumed the damage was to my chest, which took the brunt of the impact, but over the next month or so as the pain in my chest subsided, I began to notice my shoulder more and more.

After waiting months on end, I finally got the MRI and lo and behold, an 1+ inch tear across my supraspinatus tendon (connects to your arm and runs underneath the clavicle). With the great "free health care system" in Canada, I don't even get to see an ortho for a consult until the end of September and then God only knows when I might get surgery after that, so I'm attempting to jump the queue a bit and have forwarded my MRI down to the Naval Hospital in Bangor. Hopefully they will see a bigger priority on this and get me in to see a doc much sooner. I'll keep you all posted.