Dislocated my shoulder Monday night

[LEOLAV]

As alot of you guys know, I play alot of sports to stay healthy (now that I am much smaller than a year ago). My latest kick has been playing modified fastpitch softball.

I play leftfield and some catcher for my team. On monday night (I play in a fall ball league), I was playing in left. One guy on the other team hit a ball in the left center gap that I made a diving catch on, but I landed funny and felt and heard a popping noise in my left arm. I got up and threw the ball back in...no problem.

I am up to bat third in the next inning and my left arm is really achy. I figure it just the way I landed. I get up to bat and as always, I swing for the fences and hear the pop again (IT WASN'T THE BALL UNFORTUNATELY). I hit the ball in the gap, but I barely make it to first base because of the pain. I get a pinch runner and get pulled from the game. :beatdeadh :beatdeadh

I went to the Dr. on Tuesday afternoon and he confirmed it was a dislocated shoulder. I am in a sling til the the 7th and no swinging til AT least the 14th.

Kinda bummed out, but at least we are in the midseason break right now and our next game isn't until the 15th. We play til around Christmas. Even if it snows, they have a blower that cleans the field allowing us to play!!!

My stats for this season were my best of the three seasons of this year. We play in a spring warm-up league (we were 1-9), a summer league (22-10) and our fall league (6-1 so far). My batting average and HR has increased from .512 and 2 HR (spring), .745 and 24 HR (summer) and .735 and 8 HR (fall league).

I was always a pretty good contact hitter, but I bought a new composite bat that has increase my avg. distance on a fly ball by AT LEAST 25-30 ft. That's why my HR are so many more after spring ball. The bat is called a Miken Freak 98. It is a awesome softball bat (for $259 it should hit the ball by itself). Our team has been steadily getting much better. No more stupid errors, no more bad pitching. We are taking it WAY TOO seriously now!!! :trink40: :trink40: :trink40:

I just can't wait to get out and play again.

[Ingersoll444]

Oh mad thats rotton. I dislocated my right sholder YEARS ago, and it was better for a wile, but the last year of so it has been acting up. Never goes away

[Carl]

Sorry that you injured yourself. So how are you typing now? 1 finger?

Get well soon, and I hope it isn't an injury that comes back to haunt you when you move past 60.

[Ken N Tx]

Get well soon Leo..At least you can still type!! :congrats:

[Jim_WV]

Sorry to hear that Leo :fing20: , here's wishing you well and a speedy road to recovery :trink39:

[LEOLAV]

I can take the arm out of the sling (not really painful at all). Only time it hurts is when I go to raise it up around chest level. That is much better even since it happened. I can feel it getting better, but it's kinda put me out of commission until early/mid November. I'll have one hell of a clean up to do with the Kubota with all the leaves falling, but hey, its more seat time!!

It was stupid of me to try and make that catch. I should know better, but the catch was made, and we got out of the inning unscathed run wise, justmy shoulder hurt like hell that night.

My teammate went out in the outfield the next inning and took a digital camera picture of the turf where my shoulder hit the wet turf (it was raining like hell all weekend and the turf was soaked and squishy) I took out a 9 inch x 1.5 foot hunk of turf with my shoulder. What a nice crater I made!!

[freebird]

Follow the doc's orders completely. I experienced a rotator cuff injury years back. I got a HUGE looking bruise. It's what they call a gravity bleed inside the muscle tissue. The point is, if he prescribed exercises to maintain full motion DO THEM! I didn't do mine enough and grew adhesions where they shouldn't be. The doc had to break them off otherwise you lose mobility in that area. God it sounded like he was going to tear my arm off with all the popping and cracking. Oh, get well soon!

[LEOLAV]

I go to physical therapy this afternoon. I will get exercises today. My sister is a PT so I will see her. She has already looked at it and said it isn't as bad as it could have been. I guess I'm kinda lucky.

[bontai Joe]

Sorry to heear about your shoulder, take care of it. Glad to have you back here posting!

[LEOLAV]

Just been so busy. I travel a ton, play softball and workout, have the twin boys at home (2.5 yr olds). I barely have time to do anything yard related anymore. I am going to Las Vegas next wed. for the SEMA and NACE Automotive Shows and then to the FABTECH welding show in Chicago the following week. Nice to know I get a break now and then!!!

I have a ton of projects planned for the winter though!!

[Carl]

Ah, the passion of the game. These things get done without a thought. A thought other than make that catch! Not a thought about, this might hurt.

Two things I know: the better condition I'm in the less chance of injury, and experience teaches how to do these things without injury.

Neither of these will prevent injury, only minimize it. However, I don't know if either would have prevented injury when doing ditch digging work with the shoulder. So your sis says that you are in pretty good shape for the shape your in. I'd listen to her and your doctor.

Are you the hero of the team?

[simple_john]

ouch!!! 'POP' that sounds painful.. hope it gets better...

[HydroHarold]

Never mind your injuries, DID YOU WIN THE GAME??? :D:D

Sorry to hear about the second nastiest sound in sports (the first is "CRACK"!, the second is "POP"!). Take some "free" advice from a geezer and do ALL the excercises they give you for therapy. I have tried it both ways and it's definately better doin' them all! :D How you makin' out on the "sympathy scale" at home? :fing32:

[LEOLAV]

We did win, but we also lost our catcher to a knee injury. He is out for the year.

[LEOLAV]

Just an update. I jumped back into playing was night (4 days earlier than anticipated) to play 2 make up games. I no longer play the OF, I am now the new catcher (my preference anyways!) I caught both games without incident and pain. I went 5-8 with two doubles. I didn't swing hard at all. Only two more games.

I need to get in even better shape. Today, my quads are burning from catching the doubleheader last night!!! I'm just getting old :eck16: