Welding Tips and Tricks

Howdy folks,

So I just had shoulder surgery this past Wednesday do to injuries from a previous career as a whitewater raft guide. To make a long story short, the Dr. says I'm out of work for 8 weeks minimum. I'm on day 3 right now and already losing my mind. Have any of yall had shoulder surgery before and how did you cope being out of work for that long?

Really more out of boredom than anything, but I gotta get my welding fix somehow!

Cheers!

I have had 3 shoulder surgeries, 2 right 1 left.
8 weeks will be the minimum, depending on what you have had done.
Expect anything from 6 to 12 months to get full strength and movement back, also depends on what you have had done
By week 4 hopefully you will, if the surgery is your dominate hand achieve bum wiping with it.
Oh what a joy, I kid you not
As to bordom, you tube is the answer, jodies site and many others, enter welding in search.
Do your exercises, follow the physios directions, don't do anything silly and injury yourself, you really don't want to do this again. Get out and walk around the block, gets you out of the house, play the girlfriend off against the wife or mistress, just kidding you don't need that much stress.
Internet, reading, walking, enjoy the fact you're not commuting, porn, gives you a new skill with the off hand
Seriously, look at it as a job, your job is to recover as best you can, its worked for me through 3 shoulder surgeries and beating cancer.
Stay positive, stay sane do what you can, enjoy the break.
That give you a few ideas?
Oh and beer, not the answer but it doesn't hurt
Cheers

I had 2 surgeries on my left shoulder exactly one year apart so I was down for a long time. It's hard to say how to cope with the boredom as we all have different interests. Luckily I am right handed so I was still able to go about most of my normal activities. I had to be careful with my left though because they re-attached my bicep tendon to my arm bone so I couldn't lift anything heavy for quite awhile. You will probably start therapy soon and that will progress up to 8 hrs a day and then work hardening. I absolutely HATED therapy and kept begging them to release me back to work but no-go. I am not a doctor so take my advice for what you paid for it but depending on the nature of your injury and repair, you should be able to do most of your normal activities but you just need to stay aware and be careful of your newly repaired shoulder. If it was a workmans comp injury and you re-injure it by doing something you weren't supposed to be doing, you could be up shit creek so be careful. As far as how to deal with the boredom...I got nothing.

Get a hobby... https://www.blender.org/features/

HELacey wrote:Howdy folks,

So I just had shoulder surgery this past Wednesday do to injuries from a previous career as a whitewater raft guide. To make a long story short, the Dr. says I'm out of work for 8 weeks minimum. I'm on day 3 right now and already losing my mind. Have any of yall had shoulder surgery before and how did you cope being out of work for that long?

Really more out of boredom than anything, but I gotta get my welding fix somehow!

Cheers!

Thanks framie!

Thankfully I have a good girl by my side, so the porn is about useless until she leaves for work. I'm already walking about 4 miles a day now, but i find that there's some 14 hours in the day I'm not doing something other than scoping the internet. You never realize the value of something until you can't use it anymore.

Cheers.

Some (non-porn!) entertaining time wasters on YouTube are:
Colin Furze: https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze (mad scientist? fabrication)
Mr Pete: https://www.youtube.com/user/mrpete222 (machinist and random fabrication)
AvE: https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil (random fabrication)
Grant Thompson "The King of Random": https://www.youtube.com/user/01032010814 (fabrication, explosions, chemistry...)
Colin Furze: https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze (mad scientist? fabrication)
Matthias Wendel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel (wood working, shop tricks)