• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Crashed/Shoulder tear

D

DrinkBeer

Husqvarna
AA Class
Well I crashed and have some rotatory cuff damage. Doing 6 weeks PT then seeing if I need an operation. Worse part is I had a side effect, you know those long list of cr@p they list for every drug that never happens, and had a acid reflux/ulcer thingy happen from the anti inflammatory pain meds. So now my shoulder hurts ( because I had to stop taking everything) and eating is painful! A little tear comes to my eye when I hear a dirt bike snarling in the distant woods thinking that could be me running wild.

Goods news is it is basically the end of riding season ( I keep telling myself) and I have lost 10lbs! 204 to 194.... Nice!!! And all this will heal and I will be back riding come spring. Maybe lighter! And the big one.... It could have been much worse and is not.

Oh, and since it has come up recently, my fellow riders all did the right thing and responded properly and I was happy to not be alone. I could have made it out if I was alone, but glad I was not.
 
I hope you don't need the surgery and you heal up fast. There is no good time for an injury in my book. But at this time of the year you should have a lot of time to rest your shoulder.
 
Sounds like you have the right attitude! Hope you don't need surgery. I've had two low-speed high sides and both times damaged my rotator cuff. It can be a slow recovery path. I started with PT, and got my mobility back, but after my second injury I had lingering pain. My doc advised against an operation. So over the course of months I slowly experimented with different approaches (PT, no PT, ice, heat, pain killers, no pain killers, yoga, intensive exercise, intensive lying around, saunas, swimming, acupuncture...). I learnt the shoulder is a complex joint, and working on one part can easily irritate another. In the end, two things really helped: I found a good Osteopath, who identified that my issue was a trapped nerve not in my shoulder but in my rib. I was extremely dubious, but after two treatments about 80% of my pain went away. The other thing? Riding! After months off my bike, I got back on and did a series of day rides, nothing technical. I realized that while riding my shoulder was constantly in motion, but also supported by the bars, and somehow that built up the muscles more than a PT or gym session.

I do wish that protective gear was better designed for protecting rotator cuffs and AC joints.
 
Glad you had the proper support from your friends, and here's hoping that you make a timely and complete recovery.:thumbsup:
 
I have a bruised shoulder that is getting better. It hurt so bad, that after it settled down, I discovered I had bruised ribs as well. Getting old sucks, takes forever to heal. I hope you don't need to go under the knife.
 
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