{"id":29910,"date":"2022-10-07T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=29910"},"modified":"2022-10-07T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:04:02","slug":"i-dont-need-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2022\/10\/07\/i-dont-need-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Need Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"I<\/a>
I thought for a bit about how to illustrate this entry, but as I was doing it, I also needed to illustrate my column for tomorrow about COVID-19 vaccination, and had some interesting outtakes, including these two tiny water droplets clinging to the tips of two injection needles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why is not needing surgery news? In succinct terms, I was grimly beginning to think that my achy breaky left shoulder was going to need work.<\/p>\n

I already had a minor piece of surgery this summer<\/a>, and while it was easy and painless, part of me says that I don’t want to be the guy whose health falls to pieces rapidly after his wife dies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, I have no recollection of injuring it, but am very sure it started bothering me on the very day Abby died.<\/p>\n

Today I saw the same shoulder guy that looked after Abby’s shoulder (the left one, of course), and after an examination and a couple of radiographs (okay, fine, x-rays, which they actually aren’t), he told me I probably did not have a torn labrum like my sister did last year, but some osteoarthritis in the joint, and inflammation in the\u00a0 surrounding tissue. He prescribed a course of oral steroids, and physical therapy.<\/p>\n

Despite this and the fact that I am less than a year away from turning 60, I feel I am in top physical shape.<\/p>\n

\"After<\/a>
After my needles illustration was done, I fiddled around a little with water droplets from the needles. If you’ve ever had an influenza or COVID-19 vaccination, or injected yourself with insulin, this is the size of needle they use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is not needing surgery news? In succinct terms, I was grimly beginning to think that my achy breaky left shoulder was going to need work. I already had a minor piece of surgery this summer, and while it was easy and painless, part of me says that I don’t want to be the guy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-journals-notebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29914,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29910\/revisions\/29914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}