Shoulder

It's been a few days since Saturday, but we're still processing the good thing that happened and what it means.

So, our bishop knows a guy who is a doctor of sports medicine. It just so happens that this guy is also the inventor of a machine that helps heal pitcher's shoulders when they get out of whack. It's a variant of frozen shoulder.

He took Man down to this man's office Sat morning where Man got to use this machine first with his left (and fine) shoulder, and then with his right shoulder. He said it was a very difficult thing to do, to manipulate the machine appropriately when his shoulder wasn't behaving the way it should.

So he came home a bit sore but was otherwise almost pain-free.

He still has some pain from a torn tendon, but the torn tendon is treatable with exercises and time now that this other pain has been taken care of.

It's a flippin' miracle is what it is. He's able to move his shoulder in ways he just couldn't before, and can now even sleep on that side again (whereas he wasn't even able to sleep on his back without pain).

I havn't seen him smile this much in years and a good bit of the depression he was experiencing has eased. It's just such a relief to see him laughing again, and not getting upset when someone accidentally bumps into him.

So, we're all in a much better mood with this sigh of relief.