Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144)

[spacerunner]

Thanks luro1964 for the link to this very interesting article, which reinforces me to get a second opinion yet in order to get more certainty for the right decision, which is really not easy.
Let's see if I can find another competent representative of the white guild who has the courage to pass his opinion about it honestly ...

[spacerunner]

Hello friends,
there is still justified hope that I might get around a surgery.

The physiotherapist said today that it could not be a complete tendon rupture, especially since I have no pain and no functional restriction in my shoulder and I can totally lift my arm to the top and let rotate it through 360°, just like the other.

So I immediately registered with the Chief physician for orthopedic surgery, trauma surgery and sports medicine in a larger clinic in Stuttgart, where I've got an appointment on August 6 to get a second opinion.

Then we'll see ...

[luro1964]

I agree with your physio. My mother broke the bony insertion point of the supraspinatus muscle and couldn't lift her arm above her head. She couldn't comb her hair. She did need surgery because of the reduced function. Seems like you can do most things.

[spacerunner]

I'm feeling good and can do everything with my arm as before, without pain.
I only feel the bruised ribs in the left chest, but this is normal and takes a while yet ...

[Revell-Fan]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed, my friend!

[spacerunner]

Marcell,
I've been waiting for you already, now I can go to sleep satisfied ...

[Revell-Fan]

Don't worry, I'm always with you.

[spacerunner]

Hello everybody,
after I have had enough time and have now formed my own opinion, I can now go on carefree and cheerfully, but next week I will get as planned a second opinion from the specialists at a clinic in Stuttgart.

According to my diagnosis, I did not completely tear the Supraspinatus tendon, when I fell almost 4 weeks ago, as one has meant last, but rather probably "only" a local defect happened, as the radiologist meant after his MRI, which, however, might also already be based on a degenerative pre-damage, that went unnoticed.

The initial pains, which has now almost completely subsided, was in my opinion a result of the rib bruise that I had contracted. In any case, I have no pain in the shoulder and no functional restrictions and can do the "windmill" with both arms as before. Thank God and my Guardian Angel!!!

I've found a plausible explanation in the said Article, which I've read again in more detail.

There it says, among other things: A rotator cuff tear that is the result of aging, called a degenerative tear of the rotator cuff, must be distinguished from a tear that is the result of a traumatic injury to the shoulder. There is some crossover, where the chronic weakening of the rotator cuff from aging degenerating leads to susceptibility to tearing from relatively minor trauma. Therefore, each individual likely has components of both degenerating and trauma that contribute to their shoulder problem, and your orthopedic surgeon can help determine why your tear occurred.

Since I think that I don't have (no longer) a shoulder problem, I now wait relatively relaxed, what the 2nd orthopedist next week thinks about it. But an surgery would now rather mean like to shot with cannons at sparrows ...
In the light of recent events, I have now played a doctor myself and have operated our little squirrel that had suffered a complete foot fracture in the garden some time ago.

But since I am not a miracle healer, I got myself with the Revell UV Super Glue a miracle weapon that I wanted to try out already a long time ago.



So I put the patient in the stable supine position,



and then have applied the liquid adhesive to the break point.



After putting on and pressing the front paw, I then irradiated the seam with the UV pointer, which causes the adhesive to harden transparently.



And that was already the miracle healing,



and the squirrel wanted to go back to the garden quickly.

And this gave me the idea that I could also use this UV glue for the Pad and MLP lighting to seal the LEDs in the lampshades, or that one could be able to shape glue drops over the LEDs, so to speak as "bulbs".

[spacerunner]

And then I've tried it out on my test lamps.

Back then I had also experimented with tiny glass beads (right) to simulate the lamp body. To the left of it, the LED is only inserted flat into the lampshade and should have been glued yet.



Both lamps are switched on here.



In this position I've then dripped the glue onto,



and then hardened with the UV pointer,



as well as tested.





To shape a nice round drop, I will have to experiment a bit yet, but this solution should certainly be useful, also for the three special lamps 11, 12, 17 without a wide lampshade.



But now I'll switch off all the lights and slowly move into the horizontal, and maybe dream of the squirrel ...

[Revell-Fan]

Ingenious idea! I hope it works as planned!