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What stupid injury left a long lasting impact on you?
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…and how quickly did it affect you?
Would be good additional information.
IOW, messed up your knees doing track events in college, got a knee replacement at 50 because you couldn’t take the pain anymore.
The pain was immediate
I put my shoulder into the shelf and the it made a squelching popping sounds and hurt like hell
I waited 2 weeks before I went to the doctor because I was pretty damn broke and both my deductible and my out of pocket max were pretty damn high
When I finally did go to the doctor they did an ultrasound of my shoulder. I was talking with the tech who was doing the ultrasound and they suddenly sucked air through their teeth and went, "Oh that's not good."
3 months of physical therapy got it back to about 80% functional. After a year it was closer to about 95%. It's basically plateaued there but at least it only bothers me sometimes now rather than every breath I took like when it happened.
Damn. Ouch. Had a rotator cuff injury. Took a couple days before it actually set in, but when it did, it sucked. Had to sleep with my arm hanging off the bed in a certain position, hurt if I rasied my arm past a certain point. Couldn’t put my arm behind me at all. Dr basically said I could take 6 months and try to work through it with some exercises or get surgery and take 6 months beyond that for recovery. Chose the former, surgery is no guarantee, and it’s up to about 98% after a year or so. Only once in a while reaching behind me do I notice a little loss of range of motion, but that’s about it.