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I apologize for making a statement on the Kevin Jones Blade Show thread about an issue I'm getting fixed today.
I had stated that I was getting some surgery on that thread and I felt it started to detract from a time-honored traditional thread. Wrong focus.
So here are the details - if anyone cares - and if anyone wants to comment.
I am very pleased that at 63 years of age, I have avoided any forays into the medical world, other than ER trips for countless stitches, since I was in high school sports.
Today I'm getting something fixed.
My right shoulder needs some attention. Nothing re-constructive. Just a one hour out patient arthroscopic procedure to remove something that shouldn't be there. (It's what happens when you move a forge and knife shop almost entirely by yourself!)
That said, I should be really happy.
I spent more than a 1/4 of century building houses from the ground up.
Always in the outdoors. Canoeing, camping, hunting etc. And I have been shooting long bows and recurves since I was 14.
And the last decade I've spent as a full time forging knife maker.
I have not lived a sheltered, inactive life!
And this is the first thing I've ever had to have "fixed".
I really need to thank my 20 year Chiropractor for that. If you keep things where they're supposed to be, it's amazing the health one can experience.
Anyway, I'll be in good hands today. My surgeon is the orthopedic surgeon for the Chicago Bulls and White Sox.
It still couldn't come at a worse time, only four weeks before the Blade Show in Atlanta.
I'm not sure what I'll have on my table this year, but if you're going, at least please stop by and say hey. (Might just be some stock removal stuff.)
I do need to pay for this thing today myself. I'm building some "fund raiser" knives just for this expense. Actually much different than anything I've ever done. I'll share them here when the time comes.
I'll do a post-op follow-up tomorrow.
Typing one-handed, of course.
Thanks.
Wish me luck!
I had stated that I was getting some surgery on that thread and I felt it started to detract from a time-honored traditional thread. Wrong focus.
So here are the details - if anyone cares - and if anyone wants to comment.
I am very pleased that at 63 years of age, I have avoided any forays into the medical world, other than ER trips for countless stitches, since I was in high school sports.
Today I'm getting something fixed.
My right shoulder needs some attention. Nothing re-constructive. Just a one hour out patient arthroscopic procedure to remove something that shouldn't be there. (It's what happens when you move a forge and knife shop almost entirely by yourself!)
That said, I should be really happy.
I spent more than a 1/4 of century building houses from the ground up.
Always in the outdoors. Canoeing, camping, hunting etc. And I have been shooting long bows and recurves since I was 14.
And the last decade I've spent as a full time forging knife maker.
I have not lived a sheltered, inactive life!
And this is the first thing I've ever had to have "fixed".
I really need to thank my 20 year Chiropractor for that. If you keep things where they're supposed to be, it's amazing the health one can experience.
Anyway, I'll be in good hands today. My surgeon is the orthopedic surgeon for the Chicago Bulls and White Sox.
It still couldn't come at a worse time, only four weeks before the Blade Show in Atlanta.
I'm not sure what I'll have on my table this year, but if you're going, at least please stop by and say hey. (Might just be some stock removal stuff.)
I do need to pay for this thing today myself. I'm building some "fund raiser" knives just for this expense. Actually much different than anything I've ever done. I'll share them here when the time comes.
I'll do a post-op follow-up tomorrow.
Typing one-handed, of course.
Thanks.
Wish me luck!
