hey everybody it's a shook here how are
you it's been a while since I've seen
you I had my surgery it's been two weeks
and two days ago and I'm still in this
sling with this pad inside of it to keep
it away from me and I got to tell you
I'm a very secretly sling yeah it waited
today and night okay so having the
surgeries one thing I get five little
cuts up here arthroscopic on my rotor
cuff on my supraspinatus here gone in
and repaired that tendon which was
shredded up had a huge opening like
imagine having a tear in the knee of
your jeans and the tendon is all around
the edge and open in the middle then to
go in pull all that together clean up my
glenoid labrum back there snip a few
things off take off a bone spur the
hardest part about this rotor cuff
surgery is wearing this and not moving
my shoulder and I've got another two or
three weeks maybe three weeks wearing
this I start my physical therapy pretty
soon this is the first day I've actually
really been messing around in a hammock
because I just did not want to take the
chance of falling into the hammock weird
and messing this thing up because I
don't want to have to go through it
again I want this thing to heal up solid
or I got to think about it it's like a
four week epoxy in here it's a very slow
set epoxy so right in here I have a
screw kind of going into my bone a
little bit to hold these threads down
which are sort of holding the whole
tendon together and I can't move it can
use this hand a little bit I can move it
from the elbow out I don't want to be
moving my shoulder so I was able to get
my hammock up and that felt like an
accomplishment you know got my Whoopie
sling onto my toggle and then just kind
of pull the Whoopie worked the
suspension up the tree a little
like that and I was able to get my
hammock up whoo yeah celebrate but it
does feel nice just to lay here in the
hammock and tell you what having this
rotor cuff surgery has really really put
a cramp on my my camping season
beautiful fall weather the leaves are
starting to change up north it's been
cool and then wet but today is beautiful
tomorrow is gonna be beautiful
October first to have my first physical
therapy appointment which is sooner than
I thought and I'm happy about that to
start getting this arm moving a little
bit more and find out how much longer
I'll be in the sling and what they what
they think about this tendon and how
well it's healing like I say it's only
been two weeks and three days now it
feels good but when I take this sling
off to take a shower and I try to raise
this arm up like that it reminds me I'm
not healed up even though you know I can
do all this from the elbow down it has
just been a lesson and just haven't
learned how to take it easy and do do
less I don't like it I don't like it at
all so I just got to say that it feels
dependants to be just swaying in the
breeze and a nice cool day here in the
hammock glad to be back in one thanks
for hearing me out on the shoulder I
appreciate all the cakes and the cards
and the letters and the boxes of Whitman
candy nobody 70 any cuz I have to tell
you this surgery it took a little bit of
wind out of my sails kids it really did
between finishing my summer and I
finished the Minnesota State Fair on
Labor Day Monday which was September 3rd
I had the fourth off and I went in for
surgery at 5:45 and under the knife or
the arthroscopic tubes at 7 a.m. man and
I was Lu
P I mean they drug you up good I kind of
remember coming to and this nurse was
talking to us and I could see two of em
and Meg said I was searching dr. Gannon
came in to talk to me
I was just burping in his face and not
saying excuse me and I always say excuse
me because if anything my mother taught
me to crush my strawberries I'm leaning
on my shoulder see I got to just take it
easy the minute I feel a little strain
there I got to get off of it right here
feels perfect I'm going way way on and
on too much about this nice thing about
this that hurt my shoulder
whew buddy I'll scare in Sector seven
about it shoulder okay I'm still not
done so I got a little favor to ask here
to some of you that might be so inclined
so a year ago I was in the short film
called 100,000 miles a second and some
of you might remember on a video I did
work with Suge talks and talks and talks
I'd asked you about voting for this film
because there's a site it's in a film
competition it's in the second round of
voting now it's called the audience
Awards you just have to go in and put
your name in and if you vote for our
film and I'll put the link in the
description box below this video
right at the top you know if only a few
of you do it that would make me feel
like I'm doing my part in carrying the
load on this short film because here's
one things I learned about short films
they don't even really start to get
active until like three quarters of a
year later and a year later now they're
in all these film festivals and ours is
getting in some European film festivals
and it's really exciting I mean it's a
it was one of the more popular years to
have short films there's a ton of them
out there so the voting is important so
Patricia Fox who wrote it and it's
basically about her life it's about a
woman with MS meets this homeless street
musician and he kind of lays a little
nine groove on or that makes her look at
the world a different way or herself a
different way so if if you can if you'll
want to if you're so inclined I hate to
ask you I don't like to ask people for
nothing but if you could go there and
put a vote on it man we'd all appreciate
it and if you don't don't feel bad about
it I'm just asking because I've got to
do my part so
but if you do thank you if you don't
thanks for watching this video