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Post surgery and long time no write

My last post was a couple of days before my shoulder surgery (Dec. 10) and here we are 2 months later!  My shoulder was worse than the Dr had expected.  He said, it looked as if someone had put a match to all the tissues, muscles, tendons--that everything that was supposed to be white was red and inflamed.  OK--folks--INFLAMED!  Which leads me to my blood work which always shows NO inflammation.  See with ankylosing spondylitis EVERYTHING can be inflamed and NEVER show up on blood work.  I wish the DRs would realize this--oh, you have no inflammation--umm yes, I do.  I ended up with a partial rotator repair and 2 inches of bone removed.  The reason for all the inflammation was all the jacked up bone!  That's my medical term--jacked up! My recovery has been painful and long.  I've got a long road ahead, but at least I finally don't have numbness in my fingers.  This will not make me pain free, but it will help in managing and d...