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Glad your surgery went great, and everything looks positive for a full recovery.
Playing the guitar will definitely help pass the time. Bonus it's recommended as part of your recovery physio. :y45:
Have to agree with Rocky on your length of run time for your bike. Not enough time to burn off all the condensation in the engine and exhaust.
:beer: to a speedy recovery.
 
Sounds like you are own your way to a good recovery and you are following orders very well, i to had surgery about 15 years ago, turned out good and the therapy helped as much as the surgery. One thing i really be leave is that alot of people don't do all that the doctors prescribe, i always follow the dr.'s advice to a T, it makes alot of difference. I do agree with Rocky about that time running your MC engine, a while longer might heat it up to get more of that moisture out of it and help charge the battery too. Glad to hear you are on the mend.
 
Thank you for that info. I didn't know that. But, now that I do. So, I'll just leave it on the trickle charger and leave it alone until the doctor clears me to ride again. Since it's going to be setting for a while. When the the doctor clears me to ride again, should I change my oil and filter before I ride it again? I just have 2,500 miles on it since my 500 mile service and I use Amsoil Metric 10-40 full Synthetic Oil and an Amsoil oil filter. Or can I just start her up let her warm up and ride her?
Thanks Snakesfield
 
As others have said in various ways ... 6 months lay up, do nothing other than trickle charge the battery, doesn't matter if it's connected 24/7 or connected every two weeks for half a day. Think about those new bikes on slow moving showroom floors, all they do is connect the battery prior to sale.
I don't know of your condition, if it's anything like mine rest it for LONGER than the doctors suggest. The first time they reconstructed my right shoulder the thinking was a quick return to aggressive activity and it failed. The second attempt to fix it they said SLOW and STEADY return, much better outcome.
I don't know if you are left or right handed, or if your surgery on your dominant or off side??? If off side, don't play your bass. If dominant side, only finger pick and anchor very well. After all these years my shoulder sometimes aches after as little as 15 minutes strumming, picking notes and arpeggios I can get a LOT longer. Best of luck.
 
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Thanks for the info.
Snakefield
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Thank you for your advice. I'm right handed and I'm a finger picker also. Although, I can pop and slap also. But, I'll wait on that, until I'm at 100% again. I don't use picks either. My American made Fender P Bass only weights 8 pounds too and I work the fret-board with my left hand and do my walking basslines, along with any funk stuff, with my right hand. My Ortho doctor said, that playing my bass, along with my PT. Would be a really good thing for me to do, as long as I don't over do it. I played yesterday for about half an hour and my shoulder felt good. No pain either, not even today. I don't like to use a lot of pain meds either. Because, I don't like doing drugs, except for using pot for the pain. Pot helps me deal better with my pain, than the pain killers do and it's not addictive either. But, since I'm right handed, I don't see a problem with over playing. Because, I was doing bass runs yesterday, for the first time since the surgery and it felt really good yesterday and when I woke up this morning, I was in no pain from playing yesterday. If my shoulder starts to hurt, I'll stop playing right away. I don't want to go through this kind of pain, ever again. So, I'm doing what I should and not over doing my bass playing or things like that at all. I really want to ride my nice new bike again, real soon. But, I know I've got to wait, until I'm cleared to do so, by my doctor and not until then. I've just got to man up and wait it out, that's all I can do. But in the meantime, I'll just keep on practicing my bass playing. So that, I'll be a much better bass player, than I was before. I just have to stay on the sunny side of life, be positive. Which is easy enough for me to do and not to rush my healing process.
Snakesfield
 
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Just do less than you think you can manage. If it starts to hurt or ache you've already caused damage to the repair.
I've been in your position TWICE, the second attempt at repair doesn't have the same chance of success as the first.
 
This is my second shoulder incident. The first was on the left shoulder blade, where I was shot in Viet Nam carrying a dead pilot { I was a crew chelf on a UH1-H Helicopter and a door gunner also }. We got shot down and I had to carry a dead pilot to a Medivac helicopter, after auto rotating to the ground and taking an AK47 bullet to my left shoulder blade. No disrespect to you. But, I'm going to listen to my doctor instead. I'm in my late 60s and I'll do what my doctor tells me to do. He the one who went to med school and did the surgery. But thank you for the advise anyway.
Snakesfield
 
When somebody starts a comment with "No disrespect to you", I understand the following code.
Yes, I'm a 15 year old girl who once did a St John's first aid class. Well spotted, you got me.
Over and out!
 
I went to see my Doctor last week and he said that I was healing real fast and good also. He started me on PT, which I go to twice a week. I'm doing all of my PT stuff at home too and it's helping me out so much. My doctor rides a BMW, so he knows my pain about having a new bike and not being able to ride it. So, I just ask him, since I'm healing so fast and doing really good. If I could ride my Bobber around the block and he told me that I could. But just around the block and not to do anything that would mess up my surgery. In another words, ride like an adult, don't go to fast and to be very safe. He also told me not to go any farther than around the block and to keep the speed down. Until I'm completely healed. So, I took my bobber out for the first time in a while. Went around the block twice, keeping my speed down, to no faster than second and third gear. Plus, I live in the foothills of northern California, without any neighbors living nearby. All that I can say is, : That riding my Bobber was better than sex. It felt really good and I didn't even hurt after words. I can hardly wait, until I can go farther and really open her up. But my health is more important, than risking hurting myself again. So, about twice a week, I'll go around the block. Then I'll put her back into the garage, cover her up and do it again the next week. Until I'm at 100% well. Then, I can hit the freeway and open her up to around 65 mile an hour.
 
Wow, I'm stunned at your progress! That's fantastic TUP TUP
You're already being smart and not overdoing it. What a great feeling it must have been to get back in the saddle, but all in good time.
I did the same thing ten years ago after my shoulder surgery; PT twice a week and I used a rubber band and weights at home.
Stick with it and it will pay off years later.
As I mentioned before, these days my life is perfectly normal and I forget I ever had surgery ten years ago.
Very cool that your doctor is a rider too. He fully understands the physical stresses riding puts on your body and can advise you accordingly.
 
I got cleared by my doctor, that I could start riding again. But to take it real easy too and not to ride around like some kid either. So, I took my Bobber out for about two hours yesterday. It felt great and I didn't hurt one bit, afterwards either. While riding, I noticed that I really like cruising at 55 miles per hour, on the back roads. Just so much, to see and check out. Instead of hauling butt. It was one of the best days that I've had in months. I finally got 4,100 miles on her now and she purrs like a kitten, in this really nice northern California weather. After all that rain and bone cold weather, that we had. It was nice to be able to get out, and go for a simi long ride.
 
Excellent news TUP TUP
A couple of hours here and a couple of hours there and you will be well on your way.
I too love cruising at 55 along our winding coastal roads. It's so relaxing and you can enjoy the ride; enjoy the scenery and take in what's around you.
Yes, you can wind these bikes up and really haul butt, if that's your thing, but it should be about the ride and the satisfaction you feel in the saddle.
 

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