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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
No. But I do remember the army tags that you could wear around your neck w/your name on them .....
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May of just been a local thing. Picked mine up from a local store down street

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Orangeburst said:
May of just been a local thing. Picked mine up from a local store down street

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No, it was a big thing. The bracelets had the names of POWs and MIAs - the purpose was to always remember and keep alive the hope that the missing and captured would return - that they were never forgotten.

You may want to read this.

SSGT Marshall Frederick Kipina
 
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AM64 said:
No, it was a big thing. The bracelets had the names of POWs and MIAs - the purpose was to always remember and keep alive the hope that the missing and captured would return - that they were never forgotten.

You may want to read this.

SSGT Marshall Frederick Kipina
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My bad...POW and MIA. Both my uncles served, one as an Army medic and other USN, who passed recently and the family was not even able to have a ceremony due to this COVID crap. As a young kid I watched Cronkite in the evenings and saw what was happening. The hippies lambasting the return of troops was a disgrace. As a child the dichotomy really peaked my interest in politics.
 
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Orangeburst said:
My bad...POW and MIA. Both my uncles served, one as an Army medic and other USN, who passed recently and the family was not even able to have a ceremony due to this COVID crap. As a young kid I watched Cronkite in the evenings and saw what was happening. The hippies lambasting the return of troops was a disgrace. As a child the dichotomy really peaked my interest in politics.
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No, we can't remember everything, and certainly not things we weren't a part of. As a society we tend to get absorbed in new things and not remember the past that well. I still read a lot about Viet Nam because historically that was a more important time in my life - there are a lot of things before and after that that don't interest me as much. It looks like his plane may have been lost near or over part of the Ho Chi Minh trail - no place in Laos was good, but that was one of the worst.
 
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AM64 said:
No, we can't remember everything, and certainly not things we weren't a part of. As a society we tend to get absorbed in new things and not remember the past that well. I still read a lot about Viet Nam because historically that was a more important time in my life - there are a lot of things before and after that that don't interest me as much. It looks like his plane may have been lost near or over part of the Ho Chi Minh trail - no place in Laos was good, but that was one of the worst.
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Do you mind me asking...I know you were Army iirc. Did you serve in Vietnam?
 
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Orangeburst said:
Do you mind me asking...I know you were Army iirc. Did you serve in Vietnam?
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No. I enlisted with the intent of going to OCS (Officer Candidate School) which would have made going to Vietnam a very likely thing. At the time I enlisted they were sending people who had attended but not graduated from college to OCS; while I was in AIT (sorta like a graduate course after basic training) the Army changed it's mind about OCS for non college grads and those of us slated to go were given the option of going to the Army school for which we enlisted or keeping the Infantry MOS we earned at the end of AIT. My recruiter had talked me into Hawk Missile Radar school (at Redstone Arsenal - Huntsville, AL), so I went to school there and after graduation was sent to Okinawa. About half of my class went to Vietnam, and then a few months later wound up on Okinawa after the Army withdrew Hawk missile batteries from Vietnam.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Had my first physical therapy on my shoulder today. The therapist started moving it around and had me passively raise it above my head using a pulley and my other arm. Couldn’t move it much at first but after a few minutes I was actually getting some extension over my head. But... as I asked the therapist is my shoulder supposed to sound like a damn bowl of rice crispies! 😳 made all kinds of popping and creaking sounds. Now it’s sore, I took a pain pill, and I’m going to bed.
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What type of surgery did you have? My PT had only consisted of some passive movements, some pendulum swings and no upward movements whatsoever
 
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Carl Pickens said:
What type of surgery did you have? My PT had only consisted of some passive movements, some pendulum swings and no upward movements whatsoever
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Biceps Tenodesis, a $10 word that means repair the labrum and the ligament capsule around the ball joint, dremel some bones to fix nerve impingement.

The pendulum thing was brought up but the guy just baselined me, had me do some passive extensions, and then stretched me out, put TENS and ice in there too

My homework is the overhead extensions about twice a day for 5 minutes a session. Use a pulley to passively extend my operated arm over head.

I **** you not each time I do it my shoulder sounds like a bowl of rice crispies with the popping and grinding and it’s really tight at the start. It eases up by the end tho.

I’ve been in my sling for four weeks now though. The PT guy said I can cheat on the sling if I’m sitting down just put the arm on a pillow and NO LIFTING
 
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The arrow points to where my labrum was torn due to my bicep tendon dislocating.... the surgeon removed the part of the tendon that’s darker and anchored it directly to the humorous where the red asterisk is and the rotator cuff was partially torn to the left of where the black mark is.
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NorthDallas40 said:
Biceps Tenodesis, a $10 word that means repair the labrum and the ligament capsule around the ball joint, dremel some bones to fix nerve impingement.

The pendulum thing was brought up but the guy just baselined me, had me do some passive extensions, and then stretched me out, put TENS and ice in there too

My homework is the overhead extensions about twice a day for 5 minutes a session. Use a pulley to passively extend my operated arm over head.

I **** you not each time I do it my shoulder sounds like a bowl of rice crispies with the popping and grinding and it’s really tight at the start. It eases up by the end tho.

I’ve been in my sling for four weeks now though. The PT guy said I can cheat on the sling if I’m sitting down just put the arm on a pillow and NO LIFTING
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Friday will be three weeks for me...I had the same with a partially torn rotator cuff. My PT has been baby steps. Your range of motion sounds much greater than mine at this point and I’ve had at least 5 PT sessions
 
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Carl Pickens said:
The arrow points to where my labrum was torn due to my bicep tendon dislocating.... the surgeon removed the part of the tendon that’s darker and anchored it directly to the humorous where the red asterisk is and the rotator cuff was partially torn to the left of where the black mark is.
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We had near the same procedure then. The biceps repair you describe is called biceps tenodesis. My labrum tear was in the same spot. It appears to be a very common injury. I just had some extra bone trimming too
 
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Carl Pickens said:
Friday will be three weeks for me...I had the same with a partially torn rotator cuff. My PT has been baby steps. Your range of motion sounds much greater than mine at this point and I’ve had at least 5 PT sessions
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Sounds like you started PT before me. I was four weeks to the day before my first PT
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Biceps Tenodesis, a $10 word that means repair the labrum and the ligament capsule around the ball joint, dremel some bones to fix nerve impingement.

The pendulum thing was brought up but the guy just baselined me, had me do some passive extensions, and then stretched me out, put TENS and ice in there too

My homework is the overhead extensions about twice a day for 5 minutes a session. Use a pulley to passively extend my operated arm over head.

I **** you not each time I do it my shoulder sounds like a bowl of rice crispies with the popping and grinding and it’s really tight at the start. It eases up by the end tho.

I’ve been in my sling for four weeks now though. The PT guy said I can cheat on the sling if I’m sitting down just put the arm on a pillow and NO LIFTING
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I can't remember about the noise, but then my hearing is suspect anyways. The guy I had for PT on the first shoulder read the list of what the doc did and said something like that was pretty much all you could do in one operation, and the 6 week period with no movement was like yours, and the start of PT was brutal. One thing is that the doc and PT seem to communicate pretty well, so if there are questions the therapist is probably checking in with the doc.
 
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