Well, with spring turkey season already open in some places, and rapidly approaching here in New Jersey, I thought I'd throw up a turkey hunting video we made from a past season. I have alot of fun video taping hunts, and we seem to capture some pretty good turkey hunts. You may have to turn up your sound a little, the audio was not that good. Hope you enjoy it.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Making gains
Well, I know it's been a while since I updated this blog, but I was having some issues with rehabing my shoulder that have finally been solved.
It has been hard for me to sit at the keyboard and type for any length of time. That type of motion put pressure on my shoulder and caused pain after a short period of time. I was also experiencing very restricted motion and alot of pain in my tricep area that was limiting what I could do in physical therapy. However, last Friday that changed.
We had a family vacation planned to Disney World in Florida and I was told by my doctor it would be okay to go, but to be careful and be sure to wear my sling. So I went. While waiting in line to catch a bus at Epcot on Friday night, I had taken the sling off to straighten my arm and excercise my elbow. At the same time, two young, very rowdy kids were playing in the line and bumped into me with a pretty good bit of force, almost knocking me over. As I started to fall, I instinctively reached for the handrail with my right hand...the same side I had surgery on. My quick movement over-extended my arm past the point of pain and I felt several pops in my tricep and a severe amount of pain that lasted several minutes. I never did reach the hand rail, but avoided a fall.
For the next day, the back of my arm was swollen and sore but I had more freedom of motion than I previously had in that arm, and while it was sore, it actually felt "better" to be able to move it more. My fear was that the anchors the surgeon placed in my bones had popped out, but the pain was going away, not getting worse, and my movement was rapidly getting better.
Yesterday, at physical therapy I was doing very well, and have made great gains since that episode in the bus line at Epcot. The pain is mostly gone, I have much more strength and much improved range of motion. I explained what happened to my therapist and he guessed that I probably had scar tissue that had grafted the muscle to the bone, and was restricting my movement, and causing the pain which also inhibited my therapy. That sudden movement for the handrail caused the adhesions to break loose and now I'm on my way to a quicker rehabilitation. That is good news.
I still have a long way to go, but I'm making progress more quickly now. Turkey season will be coming up soon and while I still cannot shoot a bow, and may not be able to shoot a gun, I will be taking my niece and three brothers out with a video camera and attemtping to capture their hunts on tape. By the end of the season, I may even be able to pull the trigger on one of those gobblers myself.
Good Hunting.
DV
It has been hard for me to sit at the keyboard and type for any length of time. That type of motion put pressure on my shoulder and caused pain after a short period of time. I was also experiencing very restricted motion and alot of pain in my tricep area that was limiting what I could do in physical therapy. However, last Friday that changed.
We had a family vacation planned to Disney World in Florida and I was told by my doctor it would be okay to go, but to be careful and be sure to wear my sling. So I went. While waiting in line to catch a bus at Epcot on Friday night, I had taken the sling off to straighten my arm and excercise my elbow. At the same time, two young, very rowdy kids were playing in the line and bumped into me with a pretty good bit of force, almost knocking me over. As I started to fall, I instinctively reached for the handrail with my right hand...the same side I had surgery on. My quick movement over-extended my arm past the point of pain and I felt several pops in my tricep and a severe amount of pain that lasted several minutes. I never did reach the hand rail, but avoided a fall.
For the next day, the back of my arm was swollen and sore but I had more freedom of motion than I previously had in that arm, and while it was sore, it actually felt "better" to be able to move it more. My fear was that the anchors the surgeon placed in my bones had popped out, but the pain was going away, not getting worse, and my movement was rapidly getting better.
Yesterday, at physical therapy I was doing very well, and have made great gains since that episode in the bus line at Epcot. The pain is mostly gone, I have much more strength and much improved range of motion. I explained what happened to my therapist and he guessed that I probably had scar tissue that had grafted the muscle to the bone, and was restricting my movement, and causing the pain which also inhibited my therapy. That sudden movement for the handrail caused the adhesions to break loose and now I'm on my way to a quicker rehabilitation. That is good news.
I still have a long way to go, but I'm making progress more quickly now. Turkey season will be coming up soon and while I still cannot shoot a bow, and may not be able to shoot a gun, I will be taking my niece and three brothers out with a video camera and attemtping to capture their hunts on tape. By the end of the season, I may even be able to pull the trigger on one of those gobblers myself.
Good Hunting.
DV
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