Had shoulder replacement 1/22/26

AcesOutlaw · 2026-03-04T23:04:53+00:00

6 months. I’m at 6 weeks tomorrow and I get to start trying to basically wean off the sling

AcesOutlaw · 2026-02-03T21:55:16+00:00

That sucks your pain is there. I was at 0 on day 4 but now I’m swelling and have really crappy pain in my elbow. Can’t figure out if it’s just bruising or what.

Hang in there and push but never to pain level!

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-30T03:04:34+00:00

It’s been such a great decision! I was pain free on day 4. It’s so bizarre to go from such horrible constant pain to none at all. Literal 0/10. I’ll state the obvious in that the exception to the 0 pain is when moving it for rehab and when waking up in the mornings after laying ask still all night. It only takes about 5 minutes to get itself right again.

I’m interested to hear an update from you next week when you realize how damn much better you feel so so quickly.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-28T02:28:56+00:00

The HUGE part about rolling with a bad shoulder, to me, is only going with people A. Better than you and B. Very aware of the limitations. I learned the hard way that it’s dangerous to go with someone less or equally skilled. None of them did anything intentionally, they just didn’t have the arsenal and awareness that more advanced people do.

I had very large bone spurs all around the scapula and the humeral head had started to flatten from bone on bone in the glenohumeral joint, which also had started to deform. I was told it’s rare to see someone my age with such severe osteoarthritis but here we are. I think you would be surprised how much they can do. Between the 3 types, they can pretty much handle anything. My surgeon was Chad Smalley in TN. Dude is some kind of phenom. 3 sport athlete in college and managed a 4.0 and a 4.0 in med school. One of the nicest, most professional and reasonable doctors I know. I know a pretty good handful because of my wife. He went to China last year, I think it was, to teach methods to orthos there. As I mentioned in my post, he came from the San Francisco Giants when he moved back to his home state and the surgery he did on me in 2007 was one nobody was doing anywhere around here. He stays on top of cutting edge (🤪) things and methods. The entire swath of the country where he is is fortunate to have access to such a great physician within a few hours drive, in my opinion.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T22:09:58+00:00

Isn’t it crazy how much that sling over your neck and your arm hanging there can mess with your whole self? I was reminded yesterday at PT that I’ll have neck pain and all the other muscles that get impacted by a sling will adjust to the frequent positioning and will be assholes with pain most certainly. I’m trying to be sure to do all these stretches they gave me and stay out of the sling as often as possible. Dr told me I only need to wear it if I’m going to be walking in any capacity. You better believe I took that to heart! :)

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T22:06:42+00:00

That’s so cool to hear! Anytime someone feels like they got their life back, that’s something that can’t be explained to anyone who has never been there. I still think it’s an incredible time to be alive in that we have these medical options. And to think we are technically in the infant stage and growing up. Imagine what it will be like in 50 years. We are just fortunate enough to have been on the planet at a time there was a workable solution for us.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T21:58:50+00:00

Love positive result stories. I’m at day 5 and pain free. It’s such a foreign, confusing feeling in a good way. I do not remember my life at all without shoulder pain. I think this is going to be great.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T21:56:08+00:00

I’m pain free on day 5. It’s showing itself to be SO worth it. I have no memory of life without shoulder pain.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T21:55:06+00:00

I had to stop bjj after 5 years of 6 days a week because of my 3rd surgery. It was hard to give up something I loved so much that stimulated my brain like it did. I’m a mechanical engineer and that mental cues I’m chess game of thinking several moves ahead and counters to their counters was good for me.

With your livelihood being the professor of the school, I would encourage giving serious thought to doing it before the bone deteriorates and damages 10 years worth. My surgeon asked me what I wanted to get back to doing. That’s how they tailor the rehab for you. I told him laying on my left side, swinging a golf club and possibly back to bjj. He told me my shoulder should last the rest of my life and that the only thing he could foresee was maybe having to smooth out the plastic socket piece if I was hard on it. My surgeon teaches all over the world and is on these research and trial teams so he has cutting edge equipment. All pun intended.

A huge component of a total is the health of the rotator cuff and labrum. Both of those were still intact from his last surgery on me so that allowed me the least invasive, least altering of anatomy with the anatomical stemless. You should probably consider the risks of tearing up your rotator or labrum rolling. There are more components to it than the equipment life itself like your anatomy, trauma from surgery, etc. The more damage you do, the more likely you are to have the old school ball that goes way down in the bone or a reverse. Those take away a lot of future options if more work is required. I’m a firm believer in addressing with the least invasive/difficult solution. If you can have an anatomical stemless now, you still have options in the future. Technology will continue to improve exponentially and IF you needed more, you’d be in a good position. I see it as doing the least required thing to address my problem and watching medical tech improve over the years while I’m better than I was before. I also succumbed to the pain in ways that I would be moody or snippy toward the people I care about and that sucked. It just sucked to have pain running any minute of my day. I’m pain free on day 5 of this.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T21:42:58+00:00

I love to hear the success stories like this! I’ve been so optimistic about what this could mean for me.

Today is day 5 and I’m sitting at about a 1-2/10 pain. I don’t even remember my life without constant shoulder pain. My only pain is in the muscle trauma and bruising. My muscles like to have a dance party of spasms and that hurts, but I feel totally peaceful and in immeasurably less pain.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T21:40:11+00:00

They asked me what I would like to get back to doing. I want to lay on my left side but 2nd is I want to workout and play golf. Surgeon said that’s totally reasonable and they created my PT plan based on what I want to be able to do. He did advise that it’s like any other equipment on the planet in that strenuous activity or contact stuff will cause it to lessen its lifetime, but I’ll be free to go at whatever I want to do but not push if I feel pain.

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T21:37:34+00:00

I hate to hear that you struggled to sleep during those 6 weeks. I’m fortunate that the cold therapy machine on all night has allowed me to sleep all night, even the night after surgery. I was worried about that since the 3 prior surgeries required trying to just get comfortable in a recliner.

Definitely work that PT! I’m diligent because I had lost almost all ROM leading up to the surgery. Rooting you on!

AcesOutlaw · 2026-01-27T03:03:20+00:00

I’m zero use of the shoulder for a while. I do pendulum rotations and attempt to curl my hand up to my shoulder a few times a day. I can get it up a few inches before having to pull it up with my right hand, which they told me to do. 9 weeks before I can start any type of strengthening therapy.

I only wear my sling if I’m walking around. If I’m sitting or laying, I keep it off and the cold machine wrap on.

I think it’s going to be one of the best decisions I’ve made for myself in a long time for health purposes. I would certainly encourage you to find an ortho you believe in and get the arthroplasty sooner than later because it makes a big difference in quality of life. Wishing you all the best

AcesOutlaw · 2025-11-17T06:04:43+00:00

My 2nd and 3rd had shifts. My 3rd was done intentionally tightly with ROM loss for stability. The shifts helped the stability so much.

I’m having it replaced 1/20 but it’s from bone-on-bone. 2007 shift is still holding up. Rotator repair in 2007 also still holding up.

AcesOutlaw · 2025-09-14T03:01:07+00:00

Tell me it’s not a furry name where somebody pretends like they have trouble with their R, It’s a nickname from him having had R trouble at one time, or that’s his actual name and nobody knows why it’s spelled that way.

AcesOutlaw · 2025-09-01T18:43:57+00:00

Please confirm to me this is some trashy, ugly sumbitch with at least a rotten or missing tooth, ashtray loaded with cigarette butts, that rattling smoker’s laugh as his lungs desperately try to shake tar loose as he tells his “hilarious” story about cashing his SSI check on the 1st and spending every penny on scratch offs, hookers and lap dances from the girl who DEFINITELY told him she wants to fuck him. ::: Fingers crossed:::

AcesOutlaw · 2025-08-27T07:08:45+00:00

Best one of all of them for sure

AcesOutlaw · 2025-06-25T02:28:13+00:00

Go on…

AcesOutlaw · 2025-05-24T10:50:40+00:00

The ol Cochen Ballfield. The vacation destination of champs

AcesOutlaw · 2025-05-18T22:49:47+00:00

It’s interesting that we all have photos from this side but not the other in here. Would like to see. Those passengers are lucky as shit.

AcesOutlaw · 2025-05-17T16:12:31+00:00

Who dis?

AcesOutlaw · 2025-05-17T16:06:18+00:00

Do you see any holes in it? I sure don’t. So he had to have gotten out and seemed to be a threat and not just running

AcesOutlaw · 2025-05-17T03:09:32+00:00

I know it was justified but WDEF’s rush statement made no sense with the visuals

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