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Pull start push mower or sling blade

susie

Not sure which one did me in, but here I sit with a heating pad on my right shoulder while I sip some Jeffersons Small Batch.

Doc said I have an impinged bicep and a possible partial tear of my rotator cuff. Mower wouldn't start. I yanked that cord until I got it started. Then it would die and I had to yank until I got it started again. I believe it had some bad gas or dirt dauber, lol. It eventually backfired and ran fine.

I don't recall anything hurting at the time. After mowing I used the sling blade on stalky weeds growing around the barn. Again, I don't recall anything hurting at the time, or a telltale pop.

I go back in a few weeks for imaging if it doesn't clear up with some PT, rest and TLC.

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  • cbxjeff

    I've found (for me) getting old really sucks. Then there is the recovery thing. My doc told me when I complained 20 years ago that I'm not 19 y.o. anymore. Like I didn't know that. 😕

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  • redneckandy

    I thought you had goats to take care of that for you? Looks like you don't have enough.

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  • select-fire

    Hopefully...Hopefully you have just overworked some muscles or have some minor tears. This is a warning sign to slow down.

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  • Grasshopper

    Small rider and an electric weed eater coming up. For the big weeds guess the one thing that has a blade in front, electric start.

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  • chiefr

    Hate pulling more than once.

    I always keep a can of starting fluid handy. If that does not work, a new carb.

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  • Mr. Perfect

    Doesn't sound fun. 'Cept for the drinkin'!

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  • dreher

    Think long and hard before you have rotator cuff surgery should it come to that. I have had both rotator cuffs done. My right shoulder is starting to bother me again. I have already made up my mind that at 74 I'm not going through that pain and long recovery period again. I have often wondered if I would have been better off if I had tried extensive PT instead of the surgery.

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  • diver-rig
    dreher: 31038277389339/comments/31038328736795

    Think long and hard before you have rotator cuff surgery should it come to that. I have had both rotator cuffs done. My right shoulder is starting to bother me again. I have already made up my mind that at 74 I'm not going through that pain and long recovery period again. I have often wondered if I would have been better off if I had tried extensive PT instead of the surgery.

    Maybe, you should have tried, tequila!


    Sure, it tastes horrible, and makes you dance like an idiot, but it works...

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  • Brookwood

    The older I get, the more I like the look of a natural growth setting! 😁



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