A few days ago, my wife and I went to Lowe's Garden Store to purchase 8 bags of mulch for our yard like we always have done in the Fall. But as I bent over the metal framework of the bin to reach in the back, lift up and pull out a 40 pound bag of mulch, something in my should snapped or popped but a severe pain was felt and we had to ask for help... not only loading the bags in the cart but in the car as well. I tried to rotate my arm and shoulder a little to see if I could just work it out, but I could not reach forward or upwards without burning pain throughout that area.
My shoulder had been hurting for several weeks when I was at the gym using strength machines, but I had always assumed that it was perhaps arthritis and that strengthening the muscles around the shoulder would help. It would appear now that 15 days of doing this was simply not enough... but I fear that this pain is more than just arthritis... I think I might have injured a tendon or a ligament and the only course of action for something like that is apply cold packs and keeping my arm immobile which is probably fine when I am sleeping but not so much when awake.
Yesterday, I used a garden rake to move some dirt that my wife had poured out from a bag so that we could sow some seeds in bare areas of our front yard. Reaching out with the rake and bringing it forward into my body proved not to be such a difficult task at all which gave me the impression that whatever had happened in my shoulder was rapidly healing. I still cannot raise my arm above my head but there is not such a great need for me to do that all the time unless I am reaching for the cat food in the closet.
Unfortunately for me, I suppose, this is the FIRST TIME that I have EVER had a problem with my shoulder and find it odd that I had never realized how important strong shoulders are...
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