Day 16
I haven’t posted a shoulder update in a couple of days, because there is becoming less to write about. I’m gradually doing more and more. I’ve been able to tie my own shoes the last few days. I’ve spent more and more time out of my sling, because it doesn’t hurt me to take it out. I haven’t taken any pain medication in several days.
I’m consciously trying to avoid doing too much with my arm, and sometimes I’ll put my sling on because I’m starting to use it too much — carrying a glass of water, opening a door, that sort of thing. Two weeks and a day since surgery, and I really can’t imagine that I’ll be wearing the sling much at all in another two weeks, much less the 4 additional weeks I was told I’d be in the sling. The shoulder already feels much more stable than it did at any time prior to the surgery. So it is all going very well. I’ll definitely be sleeping with the sling on the full amount of time, because that’s the time I’d be most likely to inadvertently do something bad to it.
Tonight I led warmups for the beginner TKD class. The aerobic portion was a lot of kick-1-2-3 (kick with one leg, step, step, step, kick with the other leg), doing front, arc, and inside and outside axe kicks. And some ab work and pushups. I joined in on everything except the pushups (though I did do three middling one-armed pushups). At the class breakdown, I took two of the younger green belts and worked on one-step sparring. Then we started in on Tae Guk Oh Jang, our fifth form. That was somewhat challenging and amusing, since I had one arm in a sling and couldn’t demonstrate fully like I normally do. At the end of class, I found a partner for the long box Kali (stick) drill for a few minutes, which I always enjoy.