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Mad dog
My job is ruining my summer!Making plywood is hard work! I have the worst case of tendonitis ever! Today is my 1 day off and I'm not even fishing because it hurts so bad! I've been to the doctor, gotten prescriptions, a support brace that is supposed to take pressure to the tendons, tried icing my elbow with a bag of frozen peas, at this point I am just about willing to try anything! Anyone have any advice? I would like to chase summer runs at least a few days more this summer! The run on the North river has been pretty dismal so far and has gotten worse each week since the 4th, Too many casts between fish! Last week I watched my bobber go down with that eratic wiggle waggle takedown that signals that a fish had grabbed my fly, when I set the hook I felt the pressure of a heavy steelhead and 2 violent headshakes, then the hook pulled out....BUT OH MY....THE PAIN!!! Can't help but feel that because of the pain my hookset was kind of weak! Maybe the fish just didn't hook well, it happens!
Anyway, I'm not fishing for several weeks and Bummed!
I've worked plywood pretty much my whole life. I'm no stranger to freaking tendonitis... Its not the best thing for you, but man a cortisone shot works wonders. Next day, pains gone. I know some of the old timers got them all the time. I've only ever needed two. One in the wrist & one in the shoulder. What are you doing, pulling? Layup?
I've been hitting the over the counter pain meds at max dose a couple of times a day. I also have a prescription for the anti-inflamitory Naproxen, been icing the elbow and wearing the support strap, even at night sometimes trying to heal the tendons. At work I do change jobs or postions frequently but the pain continues! Maybe I'll have to work through it and build scar tissue! I'll deffinetely try more stretching! Thanks for the advice.
Probably gonna become a troller! I'm sure fall Chinook and Coho are coming in on every tide at Winchester bay now!
Just so your aware, Naproxen is just simply Aleve.
Hope you get back on the water quick, I know first hand how it feels to miss out on fishing due to injury. It blows big time!
A little of everything! Laying core, feeding core, turning sheets, even running a press didn't offer any relief!!! My doctor mentioned a cortisone shot but I'm giving the brace and the anti-inflamitories their chance first! I'm surprised at the intensity of the pain! Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night because of the pain and can't hardly lift a water bottle! Blows my mind! It really sucks!!!
You working on a spreader crew?
I spent a lot of years on the spreaders and layup lines. Those two jobs will make a old man out of you fast... Now I'm a sawyer, retirement jobBig padded chair, heat and A/C... That is if this industry can hold on.....
Figures!!! I have a presription for Aleve! Deffinetely feeling my age! I don't remember not fishing??? I wish I had a scanner hooked up to my computor, I have a pic of me at about 3 yrs olf holding a stick with a string and a cardboard cutout of a fish!!! I do not remember never having fished in my lifetime! I like to hunt, so fishing is on Hiatus for parts of the fall, but....fishing is my one true love!!!!
I'll be back!!! I hope!