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Hang in there. My son has dealt wth the saem problem. Get at it and take care of it, whatever you need to do. It is SO hard to be patient, but it is SO important to follow the dr orders and recover this one slowly.
One thing you might want to consider - Would you like to throw as a coach some day? Play catch with a son or daughter ? Stay the course.
You CAN do it. And you have already learned how precious every innning and every game is.

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I totally agree with mikamom. Are you on a summer team? If you are, offer to help out in any way that does not jeopardize your shoulder. Stay involved. Learn while you recover from your injury/surgery. This will help keep your mind off of your inability to play and the resulting frustration. Your efforts, so long as you do a good job, will be appreciated. Keep us posted junior.




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While all injuries are unique to the individual, my son just went through this. Slap lesion and a couple of other minor fixes while they were in there.

Surgery was 10/4/2010. Doctor said he'd be off six to eight months. He was able to swing starting 1/1/11 and also began his throwing program on that same day. He was able to DH through his spring season (HS senior) but wasn't fully ready to play SS until near the end of May. So about eight months to full recovery.

The doctor told us this would be a long, slow recovery. Not so much in the total length of time but the fact that the rehab needed to begin very slowly and stick to a strict regimen. He told us that he could absolutely NOT rush the rehab or he could set himself back weeks or months.

We understood all of that and felt that he'd have no problem sticking to the program. At least until baseball season got closer, then he started to get upset that he couldn't do what he was so used to doing every spring for the last ten years.

My son also had some draft prospects. But as the draft neared and he still wasn't playing in the field he got even more frustrated as it became clear he probably wouldn't get drafted this year since they couldn't watch him play.

However, we were able to work through this. He missed a lot of this HS senior season. He missed the draft. He's still not happy about either of those. But he's back on the field, he has a scholarship to a nice baseball school and he will be healthy and ready to go for the fall season. Three years of great baseball and he'll be ready for the next available draft.

I don't know how your situation will pan out. When is the surgery, how long will your rehab take, will you need to redshirt? I don't know.

What I do know for sure is that if you trust in your doctor and your PTs and if you work hard and if you limit the amount of time you spend worrying about "what if" then you will do great and you'll be back on the field before you know it.

This is a great place to bounce these feelings around. I'd even have my son talk to you in the middle of all this if you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Hang in there...it'll be worth it!!!!!!

Thanks for the replies. I'm working on the patience thing.

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Working on that patience thing, eh? That's really good of you junior5.



The patients really appreciate it!




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