Your on with that one ips, I was forced to endure one of their wonderful breakfasts on Wednesday and I am at present trying to negotiate a weekly price for same, just the 3 hour round trip to get over ! :smile:I would have caddied your gun for you had I been there. Why don't you come one sat ?
I will even buy you a cuppa
In my case surgery was a last resort, having had nearly 2 years of physio and injections. I could feel the shoulder joint grating when I rotated the elbow and eventually, after a house move which involved a lot of lifting, carrying, and crawling under floorboards to fix the heating, I was in agony and unable to lift my gun. After signing on at a new GP's surgery, I found myself on the operating table within a month. Suffice it to say that I am now well on the mend but it is taking a long time to get back to full fitness. I have kept up with the exercises as advised, but on Wednesday just lifting a half sack of spuds out of the car boot, saw me up half of the night in agony. Still the BBC has been showing the darts championships until 4.00am. I have just started some shooting again, using my 20 bore (not because of recoil but it's 6lbs. weight), not my first choice gun for clays, but it beats the hell out of holding the coats ! My first real shooting since last April. I shoot with a GP (NO not the Greener) and he has ensured that I have not overdone things, although he has said it can take up to 12 months for things to get back to 'normal, so just have to keep plodding on. Even driving had become a chore and I was frequently having to rest my right elbow on the door armrest, not something I find easy to do. It will be 15 weeks on Saturday and I am still unable to do a lot of what I took for granted.
Guday again Westley and all
Thanks for that Dave, I have had a few outings with the 20 bore and 21 grams, but have restricted it to around the 25 mark. I am unable to lift a 12 bore for more than 3 or 4 shots at present, and then pay for it over the following few days. I am still attending at the hospital for physio, roughly every 3 weeks and then just do my 'homework' in between. I am hoping to get fit enough to shoot at Hodnet in March, using my auto. Then of course, I have my fishing starting in April
At present, if it was suggested to have the same operation on the other shoulder, I may well be telling them to Foxtrot Oscar !!!!!
At least you had the option for an op
3 years after fracturing my C5, and compressing my spinal cord due to a squashed disc, I still suffer from pain in my hands / arms.
Painkillers, Physio and needles have all helped, but it is now what it is.
I have the mobility in my neck, and can shoot and lift and lead a relativly normal life, but have extreme sensitivity in the hands that comes and goes.
Pins and needles, numbness and untouchable pain in the arms / hands are a regular thing.
On the plus side, it could have been worse, and i could have been in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.
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Santa,
Wasn't a C5 one of them Sinclair thingies, no wonder it crashed !
I really was left with no option but to have the operation, it had reached a stage where I was sitting in the chair all night, unable to lay down due to the pain. I was led to believe that it was a simple procedure and I would be back lumberjacking within a month. This should have rung alarm bells, as I was not a lumberjack before the op ? I find it extremely hard not to keep aggravating the injury. I will just reach out my right arm to lift something and WHAM, the pain is excruciating, but then it will last for a couple of days before settling down again. It is almost 6 months now since the op. and as Dave has pointed out he is only just getting to normal after 12 months, so I have a ways to go yet. I am trying to reduce the pain relief tablets and only take them if they are really required, problem is I will wake up around 2.00am and the pain is unbearable, probably due to my twisting the shoulder in my sleep. Anyway I will take a couple of tablets and then sit there for an hour or so, until they start to work. This will occur several nights a week and it gets a bit weary after a while. I never realised that there was so much carp on nightime TV . :mellow:
:blink: I feel sure that a report from that will appear within these pages, if not from me ! Once again, I would thank you all for your support and advice, it has been gratefully received.
Thanks Robert, I will take your advice when I go to Hodnet, my 'Man' will be carrying my bag.....................................ips just does not know it yet !
) who were having a career break and shooting some Sporting, my 'Dad' who, turned 80 is still changing guns faster than I change chokes ! Also my good friend and my car service manager (who only gets invited so he can park his Bentley Covertable on my front drive). This Motley Crew made up the team of "Westley's Midnight Runners" (courtesy of Hamster) sponsored by Morrisons Bacon Counter. Upon our arrival we made the most of our sponsorship in the superb Cafe and I checked us in, collecting our scorecards. I was humping my range bag with 100 cartridges in, plus 25 in my pocket. I had researched this Forum and had originally planned to have cartridges in shot sizes, 7, 7 1/2, 8, 8.5, 9, and some 10, not forgetting the 6.5's in case of any fluffy rabbits. As this was my first 100 birder since the op. and not relishing the thought of carting over 175 cartridges around Hodnet, along with 2 cans of Red Bull, 4 banana's, a bottle of 'Sports' drink and various 'energy' bars, I opted for 100 Gamebore 'Gem' thingy's, in 8's, and 1 box of 'World Cups' in 7 1/2 (just in case). The gun was my Beretta 303 auto 28", with an extended Briley I/C in the top barrel, ( just in case anyone is remotely interested !) . So off we went to stand 1. Two of us managed to straight it, with the other 3 close behind. So the day unfolded, hitting a few and most definitely, MISSING a few, of what can only be described as excellent targets. Very little trap issues, with only the occasional 'top up' hold ups. Conveniently placed Porta - Loo's close to the difficult stands, although I had taken the precaution of wearing my brown trousers, just in case. (one has to plan these things, as one gets older). Some 4 hours later and we were approaching the final stand, number 14 which was on the old rifle range area. A right to left looper at about 25 yards and followed by a fast overhead away, quatering slightly left, four pairs. I had done a quick count up before putting the cards in and realised that if I could just straight this one, I would end up with a reasonable score for the first time out. Suffice it to say, Pair Dead, Pair Dead, Pair Dead and then finally Pair......................LOST ! for a total of 73/100. I have to say that I am paying the price and the shoulder is still aching a bit BUT, I would not have missed it for anything. The enjoyment of such a superb day in excellent company, is immeasurable and like Game Shooting, is not to be dependant on what is 'on the floor' at the end. I owe a lot of gratitude to the support and comments offered by you all during the past 6 months or so and accept that there is 'room for improvement' in my shooting ! Thank You.
