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Regular Joe
 
Group: Past PNET Supporter
Last Login: 1/18/2006 3:55 PM
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Ok..I have been training like a lunatic lately... I am going SF in the fall sometime and I am 35...
Well I have developed a bone spur in the left shoulder that sucks A$$.. Push-ups is murder, can only do 60 push-ups as this is the pain threshold point..Doing Dips and swimming is even worse....It kills but I can ignore it for something like BASIC and possibly AIT...BUT no way can I deal with this shoulder for SFAS and anything more intense with heavy rucking...
I can get a quick opto surgery that takes 1/2 hour ..they make a little incision and grind out the calcium deposit and wa-la I am back up and running at 100%.. the only problem is MEPS...do they look at this procedure as a PDQ??? I figure this is such a common minor-sugical thing these days that MEPS would waiver it..but then again MEPS standards are in the stone age and they could give me the EVIL EYE... If this is a major deal to MEPS then screw it..I will just live with the pain and figure a way to get sleep with a throbbing shoulder...
If MEPS is cool about it..then hell yea..I will go get it done and bring the medical paper work with me to MEPS... Just would like to know what direction I should go in?? Most likely I will have tiny scars in the shoulder that won't be 100% smoothed over be enlistment time..so I have to come clean on that one...
What sucks is that in Europe/Canada they use non-invasive ultra sound to break up calcification in joints but in the US they don't do that..they still use surgery here...any Canadians here could look into this procedure..I would take a flight up there if I could find someone who did this...
Regards
Chris
"... First, were we truly men of courage.... Second, were we truly men of judgment. Third, were we truly men of integrity.... And finally were we truly men of dedication."
President John F. Kennedy
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Got Silk?
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Last Login: 8/8/2008 3:21 PM
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KNOWING MEPPS, THEY PROBABLY WILL CRY ABOUT IT. IF IT ISN'T THAT BAD, WHAT IF YOU WAITED FOR THE SURGERY UNTIL AFTER BASIC AND AIT AND GOT IT DONE ONCE YOU REACHED YOUR UNIT?
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