sewing again!!

For you, I shall do a happy happy. I know what shoulder surgery is about BTDT 2x's.....

Butterfly (Make sure you DO your PT...it is very important to your recovery that you do do them at HOME if directed.....makes the healing happen quicker)

Well done! Now don't overdo. And make sure your cutter has a nice new blade so you don't strain that shoulder. Roberta in D

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I just came home from PT. Right now I'm going three times a week. They had me in PT three days after surgery!! I went every day for two weeks and then down to three times a week for four weeks. I go back to the doc on the

I'm going to get some blocks done this afternoon!! I got all of the squares I need cut last night.

Good Girl. I'm proud of you. I have intimate knowledge on how badly there are days that you just don't want to go......but you do anyway. It was music to my ears when he said I could do a little 2 " seam...even took my project in and they 'watched its progress' ; )

Butterfly ( they were teasing us as a family that they were going to name their new wing after us :)

Thanks!! The PT even wrote on my chart that I could iron and rotary cut without pain. LOL

wow I'm impressed, I had shoulder surgery back in 2001 and recovery was a long haul, definitely wouldn't have been sewing 4-5 weeks later, I think the surgeon was being very thorough and my range of motion was down to almost nil and took a year to get to a reasonable level.

I'm also back sewing again, this time following hip surgery, a lot of the things I had to work on are in the quilting phase and I decided I wasn't up to that, so pulled together a design from some Christmas fabric I bought on sale in the summer. To minimise the back and forth from the iron to the sewing machine, I've gone for something fairly simple, I think this will be my first project with no triangles in it!

Anne

I think my rapid recovery is because I didn't wait until my range of motion was down to nothing. I complained fairly early on about my shoulder after I hurt it. It's only been 10 months since I separated it and it went back into the socket twisted and then stuck. Of course they didn't believe me when I told them that was what was wrong and sent me to PT back in July. Then I had an MRI after that and the doc found out I knew what I was talking about. I actually told him "told ya" after I was out of recovery and he came in to see me and said "it was really stuck in there."

I have 45 pineapple blossom blocks done! I've got four more blocks that need the corner triangles and then trimmed and ironed. I'm really happy to be sewing again!! It didn't hurt at all to use the scissors either so I can get the monster blocks done for the grand's wall hangings.

There really hasn't been much I could do over the last 10 months that didn't cause a whole lot of pain.

Ms P

Its GOOD to hear you are able to sew again. Isn't it unbelievable how much you miss it when you aren't allowed to do it? I'm surprised that Ms P IS allowed to both iron and cut...that was the last 'can try' on my list.......

Double YAY!

Butterfly

I truly am delighted for you :)

Butterfly

Different surgeries, I guess, before surgery my range of motion was actually much greater than normal, but painful through parts of the range. I could do a lot of things normally, but even carrying something as light as a cake in a tin was painful, let alone anything bigger, my surgeon didn't rush into surgery, when I first saw him, they were still having to do this particular one open, with about an 8inch incision, by the time he'd tried everything else he wanted to try, I'd come to the conclusion I'd go for the 8inch incision (bear in mind I was 20 at the time, and this kind of incision would have had a big effect on what kind of clothes I could wear), but he announced he'd figured out how to do it arthroscopically, so the surgery itself was almost painless, it was the PT which I wasn't even allowed to start until 8 weeks post op that was the painful bit, to get the range of motion back to normal! But ultimately it was very sucessful, I got engaged 3 months after surgery and married 11 months after in a strappy dress, I had a baby 21 months after surgery and had no problems carrying him.

Cheers Anne

yup, I'm impressed, hope it continues to go well, it seems some surgeries you can try things when pain allows and it doesn't have any negative affect and others, doctors put more limits around and doing things too soon even if pain allows can have a negative effect, but I'm not always convinced they are entirely sure which approach fits with which! If there is any doubt, they usually seem to be more cautious than necessary rather than less cautious.

Anne

I think that's the difference. I know several people that have had a variety of shoulder surgeries and some of them weren't even allowed out of the sling for a month and they had the tied down kind of sling. I think it depends on exactly what was done inside what kind of restrictions you're under.

After hearing about other restrictions I'm *real* happy to be back to sewing, ironing and cutting so soon!!! I was about bored out of my mind already!

Ms P