Bicep Blog - a tale of a tear, and recovery - mental and physical!
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Yeah great work both of you!! Must be stoked with that win on the back of an injury!! awesome stuff : )
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Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th.<br />
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Well ultra-sound as expected confirmed the worst. Tendon torn and waving in the wind, 3cm away from home base. So surgery the only thing that will tie the story back together. I am to call the surgeon today (once I've typed this in fact), and ask for him to look at the scan straight away (on the advice from the ultra sound doc), and see if he wants to see me sooner rather than later. I'm sort of hoping it's sooner, as I have a serious case of the 'blahs'. Training, eating clean, keeping lean, and for what, I'll go under the knife in 3 weeks, so why stay in contest condition etc. It's just the post contest come down, always happens but still sucks. We're seven weeks away from competing at Bay of Plenty NABBA, but the heart is struggling to get back into it. Will stay strong with it though, Ness is still going great guns, so don't want to rain on her parade at the moment, she's in the best condition she has ever been in, just me the broken arse.<br />
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After viewing a few more photos though it is quite noticeable. I will have to work and see if there are different angles I can pull the fist and elbow too.<br />
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Just off the phone - 8:40 am visit to surgeon tomorrow morning. You beauty, lets fast track this bastard.<br />
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mate, there are about a half dozen places you can pull over on the Waihi / Whanga road, and about two where you can decide to pass if lucky....<br />
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Anyway, saw surgeon today, operation scheduled for the 6th of July. Lucky Friday. Overnight stay, and then recovery. 5% chance of shit happening, and they get the joint moving again almost straight away. -
Thanks Kirwan, I tried it. Not much improvement but it motivated me to look for more exercises to relieve the pain. I'm doing quad stretching and will initially focus on staying within the areas of movement that do not have much pain-sitting stretches.... Sitting is ok. Can't stand up straight and walking is painful. Got a walking stick.<br />
This is a vertebrae, and I guess I need more flexibility in the legs/hips, but the hiking probably was the opposite of what I needed for the back.<br />
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And JK I did it when I kneeled on all fours to pat a cat, then when I went to get up I felt something go out. Off to the hospital on Monday or Tuesday, fingers crossed it miraculously recovers before that.<br />
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Anyway, back on topic, hope Bartman is ok. -
alive, i am alive...<br />
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and hope your back is OK.<br />
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been flat out organising Saturdays comp, abrely time to breath, let alone train, let alone worry about biceps.<br />
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latest update, more pain in forearm at moment, various exercises hurt so avoiding them! <br />
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Operation now set in stone - 6th, so bring it on.<br />
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I am now competing on Saturday at our comp, might be my last one for a year or so! Instead of guest posing.<br />
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68 competitors, so a good sized gig.<br />
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well, 3 days after op and ready to chop arm off! nah, not really, but doc said 3 months before ANY weight bearing, but see him next monday for first real assessment. Going to be a long row to hoe though I am thinking. Defo knocked me around more than I expected, sometimes perhaps you are NOT bulletproof!!<br />
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So probably looking at a good 9 months recovery to get back to being stage ready, but just want to be able to lift a box at the moment! Hard work going from the guy who can lift heavyb shit and move stuff all over the place to the guy with one arm who is farking useless! -
Good luck on a smooth recovery and remember to stay positive and appreciate that it's not something much worse-and value what you have and have achieved.<br />
Oh, and maybe some stair repeats <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> -
geee, when I am not at work my internet time is WAAAAAAAAY down.<br />
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Anyway, been a few weeks now, are still week, watching the bicep shrink day by day, still not meant to be at work, so of course I AM NOT there at the moment. <br />
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However, I have discovered that I can use a Smith machine for bench press and shoulder press, so that is great news, getting pretty heavy too on those.<br />
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Still have not picked up a milk bottle as surgeon advised. I have however moved house, stacked firewood, shoveled and barrowed horse shit, built scale models. But wiping bum is still a left handed option...!!<br />
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So recovery going well. Had a yarn with mate whose Bicep was reattached too, but his was done a year later (so he could finish his rugby season), so they had to grab some tendon from his hammy as the bicep was too far up the arm to stretch back down. At any rate, he's now pretty much good as gold. When he flexes though the bicep starts 2 and a half fingers up from the inside elbow join, as opposed to 2 for the good arm, so that's not bad, and not noticable to the naked eye. Fingers crossed mine will be better. Surgeon actauclly said it might start closer to the elbow, depending on how much trimming on the trimming on the tendon they had to do. <br />
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SO all good, eating like a bull elephant, have not been NEAR the scales, is funny not eating surgically clean as per the last 3 years, but enjoying the looser eating. Things like a couple of pieces of toast if I am hungry in the afternoon! Eating far too much bread type stuff, but it is a good mind break. And in saying 'far too much', still sod all - it's like toast today, a scone the day before type stuff. Not the half loaf here and there like in the good old fat and unfit days!!<br />
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I even ran on the treadmill the other day. First time I have run since 2009. I still hate it!!!<br />
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and that is all for now. Ness at Whakatane this weekend at BOP championships. She is in the best nick of her life, looking awesome, BF% down to 7. SHe has never been that low before. Fingers crossed she cracks the big one and wins the overall at BOP this weekend. BUt you never know who's going to turn up.
