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[forgotten_aria]

Just to make record:

My shoulder might be finally fixed. I had an abscess a long time ago and my doctors gave me antibiotics. I also had my neck freeze up and my shoulder and neck were never right afterwards. I don't remember the exact timing of these things. I still had a bit of a lump where the abscess had been, but the size was greatly reduced. I was pretty sure that since the spot on my back tingled from time to time and was numb, something was seriously wrong there. My shoulder would always get worse when I did anything that would cause the muscles to compress the spot. My personal theory was it was resting on a nerve for the rest of the shoulder. This last week my mother helped me remove the rest of the abscess and I am now shoulder pain free, at least for the mean time. My neck is also improving. Never thought I would be so joyous to have pain-free shoulder checks. I can now also do many things in TKD that I couldn't do before, like pushups, mountain climbers, inch worm, right side plank, etc.

I also agreed to do Winchester Town Day again, but I have no clue what I'll play for my set and I'm kind of freaking out, since nothing solo I have is really performance ready. :/

Comments

[bluepapercup]

Wow, that's awesome about the shoulder, especially the regaining of range of movement! I am super curious about how she got the last of the old abscess out, as I had one a year ago that left a knot of tissue behind that I would love to be rid of.

[forgotten_aria]

She noticed the pore had access to the mass, so she opened the pore with a combination of extracting tried material and clean, slightly blunt needle. She then did a LOT of pretty brutal squeezing over the period of a week. I'm sure a doctor with a needle might have gotten it out faster, but this was safer for her to do. The stuff coming out was of different textures, so it required different techniques depending (the stuff that was solid had to be tweezed out once it hit the surface, for instance.) What was coming out smelled REALLY horrible too.

[bluepapercup]

Go mom!!!! That’s awesome. I’ll keep an eye on my pores.

[blk]

Wow, hurray for doing things without pain! It's amazing how much one never fully appreciates lack of pain until it's missing.