Well tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of my son's Tommy john Surgery. What a wild ride it has been. He threw his last pitch in early August 2010. Left the tournament out in NY thinking it was tendonitis...boy were we shocked when we found it it was a torn UCL! Who would think that a 15yr old would need TJ surgery. Go to Red Sox surgeon at mass general and he has him do 6 weeks of shoulder rehab first. decides in October that he will repair some cartilage and remove a piece of bone floating around first. Rehab from that surgery to finally have his TJ surgery in Dec 2010. As many know it is a slow rehab process, well son's left shoulder was really weak so we spend extra time rehabbing it until it is rock solid before starting throwing program in July. Ramp up the throwing program to mound work in Sept and October. Throwing really good with surprisingly good control now that shoulder is solid and he can maintain his arm slot. Meet last time with PT and gives 6 weeks of rest and then final push towards the season with shoulder work again and then toss to build up back to mound work in time for spring season. It has been a long long journey but thankfully there is light at the end of the tunnel now. He is already signed up with his Summer team and looking forward to first WWBA tournaments in Georgia. Junior year it is time to be discovered..lol.
Thanks to everyone who has expressed well wishes and sent pm's sharing their own son's experiences with TJ. Hopefully this will have a great ending with a good school finding him and making an offer he couldn't refuse.....
It is nice to have a player again...looking forward to watching my own son play this year!!
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