A Sigh of Relief

Well for the past 3 weeks I have been dealing with a very painful shoulder pain. I tried taking some time off to see if that would do the trick, but it did not. So last week I went to the doctor to get it checked out and he thought that something very terrible had happened to my shoulder so he ordered me to get an MRI. After getting the MRI and the results from it, the doctor believed that I had a rotator cuff tear along with some other problems in my shoulder that I may need to get surgery for. After telling me this, he told me to go to a surgeon to get it checked out and to get his opinion on the whole situation. So for this past week before this morning, I had been very upset knowing that I may need to get surgery. Even though surgery would heal it, I got depressed because surgery would keep me in a sling and unable to do a lot of things for this summer and fall. This morning I had an appointment with the surgeon and it came out to be very positive. I found out that I don't need to get surgery, but I have bad bicep tendonitis which needs to be treated properly with physical therapy and rest. The end result from this appointment is that I am done for the season, but in about 6-8 weeks I should be almost fully healed. Even though I'm out for the rest of this season, I'm still very grateful that I don't need surgery. I will just have to support my team as best as I can and hopefully we will make the playoffs and win the conference tournament.