#54: Shoulder Report

Back in the summer, when I fell on a slick subway grate, landing on my wrist, the xrays indicated trouble with my shoulder implant. I tried to get an appointment - using my lousy insurance - to see someone and they scheduled me for this month. Finally, a week before my appointment, that office called me to say they didn't do shoulders.


So frustrated! I waited months for this appointment.


Desperately, I looked up the surgeon who did the original surgery and found that he suddenly is taking my insurance. And better yet, he could see me in a week. Well, I saw him on Monday and the result is that my implant is fine. The issue was that the xray looks confusing to an outsider because, as many of you know, I previously had a bad implant and this doctor, Dr. Cagle, is the one who pulled the old one out and put in the new one. This was in 2019.


What the others were seeing was the "leftover" bone growth from the bad implant. Nothing to worry about. It just looks weird. He saw no loosening of the implant. I can go back to normal activities.


My wrist and hand still hurt from the fall, but that's just something I have to live with.


So thank you for all your comments and love.


Thank you also for sending me all the wonderful stories about Doug Leland, whose death I mentioned last week. He was greatly loved and some had not heard he had passed so they thanked me for letting them know.


I've been so busy this past week with rehearsals and playing Beatles songs. But I caught one of my favorite moments last week when a group of young people came through the 103 street station where we play on Fridays. We turned the whole subway station into a pop-up Beatles singalong. It was GREAT!


Here is the video of the moment. I grabbed my phone just in time.


https://youtu.be/7saTyECMHXU?si=5XqSZpnIwZecbnHn