time bombs

Remember when we all hee-ed and hawed about how medical school was going to take a toll on my fragile little cartilage matrices. How I would be fighting a battle with my body on top of everything else. Rememer all that?

Well my wrist bailed out on me in Jan and I sincerely afarid that a shoulder may be next. i was  do my spring cleaning, packing away sweaters, organizing my closet, etc. When all of the sudden my shoulder slips in the wrong direction. I brush it off. When I was 14 at summer camp I partly seperated my shoulder  (not a full tear). Ever since then every once in a while, things slip here and there. However, the pain has got progressively worse over the last several hours.  But I have full range of motion just a lot of pain but only a little swelling. I have decided I shall wait it out. I dug out my sling from my wrist surgery and am currently wearing it.  I tell myself I just made the joint angry…I try to block out muscoskeletal anatomy with its Glenoid labrum and rotator cuff tears. Those things require time and treatment, bursitis or a bad arthritis day are manageable and fit in between memorzing motor pathways and labeling brain diagrams.
if I rest it will go away…right?

I am operating on that principal till at least Tuesday. I go see the orhto for my wrist…there simply isn’t time to go see anyone till then.  So shoulder, suck it up.

Rest, NSAIDs, sling…. see I am such a good patient…marvel at my skills….

and complete inabilty to deal with the reality of possibly have blown some tendon or ligament to bits.