I was playing volleyball this past summer at the office picnic. The ball was on our side of the court and I extended way back to try to keep the ball in bounds. I felt a twinge and that night I couldn’t use my right arm. Ice packs and copious amounts of ibuprofen proved to be of little help so I went to the doctor.

The doctor put me on Naproxen and after just one day my arm was usable again. The problem was that something still wasn’t feeling quite right. After a month of this drug therapy I went back to the doc and was referred to an orthopaedic surgeon.

I have a torn rotator cuff. I go in for surgery on Monday.

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