Rod, I can so relate. About 4 years ago, I was up at my father's house in the NC mountains. He had a tree that had been cut down and into 4-5 foot sections. We were able to roll all the sections about 40 feet to a staging area. The one section that would not roll was the butt end of the tree where it was felled. It was heavily fluted on one end and would only roll in a circle. To move it, I would get my hands under one end and stand the log up, push it over and so on. This was a large diameter tree and the weight of the sections was way up there. On about the seventh lift, where I was transitioning my hand grip there was a loud audible pop. Ruptured right bicep. When I got back to Atlanta I went and saw my friend who is an orthopedist. Xray showed a small bone spur near the intertubercular groove.
I have four customers who are shoulder specialist and talked to each one of them about my condition. The conclusion I drew was that as long as I was not in pain I could hold off on the surgery. From what they said, a lot of bicep rupturs are not repaired. Aside from a slight slumped appearance, my arm is doing great and there is no pain from the bone spur - yet. I know at some point my spur will start to cause some pain such as when I'm sleeping on my side. My bicep has slumped down on the humerus and attached itself well there. I am now able to do a full upper body workout with just a few limitations. Have learned to use my lats and other muscles to take some of the load and do well at the climbing gym. Turning a corkscrew is a real pain in the ass now though.
All like injuries are not the same. Yours sounds a bit more involved. Good luck with it. Hopefully it won't be as bad as you think.
John
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